gully

谷、雨裂

流れる水が地面を削ってできた、細く深い溝。

やさしい英語で： A narrow, deep channel in the ground made by flowing water.

• Water flowed down the gully.
• Heavy rain had cut gullies into the hillside.
• We crossed a narrow gully filled with loose rocks.

類義語： ravine, channel

よく使う表現： a deep gully, a narrow gully, gully erosion

小峡谷、雨裂

多くは流れる水が地面を削ってできた、小さく細い谷。

やさしい英語で： A small, narrow valley, often cut into the ground by flowing water.

• A stream runs through the gully.
• Heavy rain carved gullies into the hillside.
• We climbed out of a steep gully.

類義語： ravine

よく使う表現： deep gully, rocky gully, down a gully

雨水ます

道路脇で雨水を受け、地下の管へ流すための穴。

やさしい英語で： An opening beside a road that takes rainwater into pipes below the ground.

• Leaves blocked the gully.
• Rainwater flowed into the road gully.
• The workers lifted the gully cover.

類義語： drain

よく使う表現： road gully, blocked gully, gully cover

切り下げ縁石

人や車が通れるように、道路脇の縁石を低くした部分。

やさしい英語で： A lowered part of the raised edge beside a road, allowing people or vehicles to cross it.

• The wheelchair crossed the gully easily.
• Workers installed a gully beside the driveway.
• Keep the gully clear for people crossing the road.

類義語： dropped kerb

よく使う表現： lowered gully, driveway gully

雨裂を作る、侵食する

流れる水が地面を削り、細い谷や深い溝を作る。

やさしい英語で： Flowing water cuts narrow valleys or deep channels into the ground.

• Heavy rain can gully the soil.
• Storm water gullied the bare hillside.
• The exposed ground gullies easily in heavy rain.

類義語： erode

よく使う表現： gully the soil, gully a slope