kite

凧

長い糸でつないで持ち、風を受けて空に揚げる軽いおもちゃ。

やさしい英語で： A light object that flies in the wind while you hold it by a long string.

• Let’s fly a kite on the beach.
• Her kite got caught in a tree.
• The children made colorful kites from paper.

よく使う表現： fly a kite, paper kite, kite string, kite tail

トビ

長い翼を持ち、小動物を捕らえたり動物の死骸を食べたりする鳥。

やさしい英語で： A bird with long wings that hunts small animals or eats dead ones.

• A red kite flew over the field.
• The kite circled above a dead animal.
• We saw several kites hunting near the river.

よく使う表現： red kite, black kite

凧形

隣り合う二辺が等しい組を二つ持つ四角形。

やさしい英語で： A shape with four sides, arranged in two pairs of equal sides that meet at a corner.

• Draw a kite with four sides.
• A square is a kite under some mathematical definitions.
• The students measured the diagonals of their kites.

よく使う表現： draw a kite, kite shape

カイトサーフィンをする

大きなカイトに引かれて水面や雪、地面の上を移動する。

やさしい英語で： To move over water, snow, or land while pulled by a large object flying in the wind.

• We kited across the bay.
• She learned to kite on snow last winter.
• They were kiting along the coast when the wind dropped.

使い方： kite across/along something (They kited across the lake in a strong wind.)

類義語： kitesurf

よく使う表現： kite across something, kite around something

急上昇させる

何かを急に高く上げたり、大幅に増やしたりする。

やさしい英語で： To make something rise or increase very quickly.

• Higher fuel charges kited delivery costs.
• A sudden gust kited the loose sheet upward.
• The shortage has kited prices across the region.

類義語： raise, drive up

反対語： lower

よく使う表現： kite prices, kite something upward