muck

汚泥、汚れ

湿って汚く、触ると不快に感じるもの。

やさしい英語で： Wet, dirty material that feels unpleasant.

• My boots are covered in muck.
• She washed the sticky muck off her hands.
• There was a pool of gray muck under the sink.

類義語： sludge, slime, filth

よく使う表現： covered in muck, sticky muck, wash off muck, thick muck

汚物、汚れ

汚れや、不快で気持ち悪いもの、価値がないとされるもの。

やさしい英語で： Dirt or anything unpleasant, disgusting, or worthless.

• Get that muck off the table.
• I won't eat that disgusting muck.
• The cleaner removed years of muck from the walls.

類義語： dirt, filth, rubbish

よく使う表現： clean off muck, disgusting muck, eat that muck

台無しにする、しくじる

物事をだめにしたり、うまくいかなくさせたりする。

やさしい英語で： If you do this to something, you spoil it or cause it to go wrong.

• Don't muck this up.
• I mucked up the booking and chose the wrong date.
• The delay has mucked our plans up.

使い方： muck something up (One small mistake mucked the whole plan up.)

類義語： mess up, spoil, bungle

よく使う表現： muck something up, muck up plans

ふざける、遊び回る

まじめにせず、遊んだりふざけたりして時間を無駄にする。

やさしい英語で： To play or behave without being serious, often wasting time.

• The kids like to muck around.
• We spent the afternoon mucking about in the garden.
• Stop mucking around during the lesson.

使い方： muck around/about (Stop mucking about and finish your homework.)

類義語： fool around, mess about, play around

よく使う表現： muck around, muck about, muck around with something

糞を取り除く、畜舎を掃除する

動物のすみかから、糞や汚れた敷きわらなどを取り除く。

やさしい英語で： To remove waste and dirty bedding from a place where animals live.

• We need to muck out the stable.
• He mucked the pigs' pen out before breakfast.
• Who is mucking out the stalls today?

使い方： muck out something / muck something out (She mucks the stable out every morning.)

類義語： clean out

よく使う表現： muck out stables, muck something out, muck out a stall, muck a stable