heap

山、積み重なり

物を集めたり投げ重ねたりした、たいてい乱雑な山。

やさしい英語で： A pile of things gathered or thrown together, often without order.

• The clothes lay in a heap.
• He swept the leaves into heaps.
• There was a heap of sand beside the road.

使い方： heap of something (A heap of leaves blocked the path.)

類義語： pile, mound

よく使う表現： heap of clothes, compost heap

たくさん、大量

何かが非常にたくさんあること。

やさしい英語で： A large amount of something.

• We had heaps of fun.
• He is in a heap of trouble.
• She has heaps of friends.

使い方： a heap of something (You have saved me a heap of work.); heaps of something (We had heaps of fun at the party.)

類義語： lot, loads

よく使う表現： heap of trouble, heaps of money

おんぼろ、がらくた

古くて傷み、ひどい状態になった乗り物や場所。

やさしい英語で： A vehicle or place that is old, damaged, and in very poor condition.

• My car is an old heap.
• They paid too much for that rusty heap.
• Why would anyone want to live in this heap?

類義語： wreck

よく使う表現： old heap, rusty heap

ヒープ、最大ヒープ

各値がすぐ下の値より大きくなるよう、木の形に並べたデータ構造。

やさしい英語で： A tree-shaped way of storing data, with each value larger than the values directly below it.

• The largest value is at the root of the heap.
• We inserted a new node into the heap.
• The algorithm uses heaps to organize the values.

類義語： max heap

よく使う表現： binary heap, max heap

積み上げる、盛る

物を重ねて高い山にする。

やさしい英語で： To put things together in a high pile.

• She heaped leaves into a pile.
• He heaped his plate with vegetables.
• They were heaping snow beside the path.

使い方： heap something on/onto something (She heaped potatoes onto his plate.); heap something with something (He heaped his plate with rice.)

類義語： pile, stack

よく使う表現： heap something up, heap a plate

浴びせる、惜しみなく与える

人に称賛や非難、関心などを大量に向ける。

やさしい英語で： To give someone a very large amount of praise, blame, attention, or something similar.

• They heaped praise on her.
• The coach heaped blame on the goalkeeper.
• Reporters were heaping attention on the new champion.

使い方： heap something on/upon someone (The critics heaped praise on the young actor.); heap someone with something (They heaped her with honors.)

類義語： lavish, shower

よく使う表現： heap praise on someone, heap someone with praise, heap praise upon someone, heap honors on someone