literature

文学

ある民族や文化が生み出した物語、詩などの創作作品。

やさしい英語で： The stories, poems, and other creative writing produced by a particular people or culture.

• She studies English literature.
• This course explores modern Japanese literature.
• His novels changed the direction of Turkish literature.

類義語： letters

よく使う表現： English literature, French literature, study literature

文献、文学

書かれた作品や文献を全体としてまとめたもの。

やさしい英語で： All written works considered together.

• Literature records centuries of human thought.
• Printing made literature available to more people.
• Much early literature survives only in fragments.

類義語： writing, written works

よく使う表現： written literature, ancient literature, all literature