pendant

ペンダント

首にかける鎖から下がる小さな飾り。

やさしい英語で： A small decorative object that hangs from a chain around your neck.

• She wears a silver pendant.
• He gave me a pendant shaped like a leaf.
• The pendants hung from delicate gold chains.

よく使う表現： gold pendant, wear a pendant, pendant necklace

ペンダントライト

天井から吊り下げる照明器具。

やさしい英語で： A light that hangs down from the ceiling.

• A pendant hangs above the table.
• We installed three pendants in the kitchen.
• This glass pendant gives a soft light.

類義語： hanging light

よく使う表現： pendant light, kitchen pendant, glass pendant

懐中時計の吊り環

懐中時計の上部にある、鎖を取り付けるための軸と輪。

やさしい英語で： The stem and ring at the top of a pocket watch, used to attach it to a chain.

• The watch chain clips onto the pendant.
• The antique watch had a damaged pendant.
• She examined the pendant before repairing the watch.

よく使う表現： watch pendant, pendant ring

対になる作品

別の作品と対になるよう、または補うために作られた美術・文学・音楽作品。

やさしい英語で： A work of art, writing, or music made to match or complete another work.

• The portrait was painted as a pendant to another.
• His second essay forms a pendant to the first.
• The composer wrote a pendant to the opening piece.

使い方： a pendant to something (The poem is a pendant to her earlier story.)

類義語： companion piece

よく使う表現： pendant to something, musical pendant

対になるもの

組になる二つのものの一方、または別のものによく対応するもの。

やさしい英語で： One of two matching things, or something that corresponds closely to another.

• This vase has a matching pendant.
• The bronze figure is a pendant to the marble one.
• We displayed the ornament beside its pendant.

使い方： a pendant to something (This vase is the pendant to the one beside it.)

類義語： counterpart, match

よく使う表現： pendant to something, matching pendant