ham

ハム

豚の後ろ脚の肉を、塩漬けや燻製にして保存できるようにした食品。

やさしい英語で： Meat from a pig's back leg, preserved with salt or smoke and eaten as food.

• I had a ham sandwich.
• She added slices of ham to the salad.
• Would you like ham and cheese?

よく使う表現： ham sandwich, smoked ham, ham and cheese, slice of ham

もも肉、豚の後ろ脚

食肉用に切り取った、豚などの動物の後ろ脚の上部。

やさしい英語で： The upper back leg of a pig or another animal, cut off to be used as meat.

• The butcher cut off the ham.
• We bought a fresh ham to roast.
• The farmer salted both hams from the pig.

類義語： haunch

よく使う表現： whole ham, fresh ham, bone in ham

大げさな役者、大根役者

人の注意を引こうとして、感情や動作を大げさに表す役者。

やさしい英語で： A performer who shows feelings or behaves in an exaggerated way, often to get attention.

• That actor is a real ham.
• She becomes a ham whenever a camera appears.
• The audience loved the old ham's dramatic gestures.

類義語： overactor, show-off

よく使う表現： a real ham, a terrible ham, ham actor

アマチュア無線家

趣味で無線機を使い、ほかの人と通信する人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who uses radio equipment to communicate with other people as a hobby.

• My uncle is a radio ham.
• The local hams helped relay emergency messages.
• A ham in Canada answered our signal.

類義語： amateur radio operator

よく使う表現： radio ham, licensed ham, local ham

太ももの裏

人や動物の脚の上部にある、後ろ側の部分。

やさしい英語で： The back part of a person's or animal's upper leg.

• His hams ached after the long ride.
• The horse had strong, muscular hams.
• He rubbed the sore flesh of his ham.

よく使う表現： muscular ham, sore ham, ham muscles

膝の裏、膝窩

膝の後ろ側にあるくぼんだ部分。

やさしい英語で： The hollow area at the back of the knee.

• The ham lies behind the knee.
• He felt a sharp pain in his ham.
• The physician examined the hollow of her ham.

類義語： knee pit, popliteal fossa

よく使う表現： hollow of ham, painful ham, ham of someone

大げさに演じる

特に人を楽しませるため、演技や感情表現を大げさにする。

やさしい英語で： To act or show feelings in an exaggerated way, especially to entertain people.

• He loves to ham it up.
• She hammed it up whenever the camera turned toward her.
• Stop hamming it up and play the scene naturally.

使い方： ham it up (The actors hammed it up for the audience.)

類義語： overact, camp it up

反対語： underact

よく使う表現： ham it up, ham for someone