hopper

ホッパー

上から穀物などを入れ、底から落として送り出す容器。

やさしい英語で： A container filled at the top that lets grain or other material fall out through the bottom.

• Fill the hopper with grain.
• Coal fell from the hopper onto the belt.
• Workers cleaned the machine’s hoppers before loading fresh material.

類義語： bin

よく使う表現： grain hopper, feed hopper, fill the hopper

跳ねる動物

小さく跳びはねながら移動する人や動物。

やさしい英語で： A person or animal that moves with small jumps.

• That little frog is a fast hopper.
• The rabbit is a better hopper than a runner.
• These tiny hoppers disappeared into the long grass.

よく使う表現： little hopper, good hopper, fast hopper

集水器

排水管の上部にあり、細い管から流れる水を集める広い容器。

やさしい英語で： A wide container at the top of a drainpipe that collects water from smaller pipes.

• Water overflowed from the hopper.
• The plumber fitted a hopper above the drainpipe.
• Leaves had blocked both rainwater hoppers on the building.

よく使う表現： rainwater hopper, hopper head, drainpipe hopper

ホッパーフライ

水面近くの魚を釣るために使う、バッタを模した人工の餌。

やさしい英語で： An artificial insect used as bait to catch fish near the surface of the water.

• A trout took my hopper.
• She cast a foam hopper near the riverbank.
• These hoppers float well even in rough water.

類義語： lure

よく使う表現： foam hopper, hopper fly, cast a hopper