pulp

果肉

果物の中にある、食べられる柔らかい部分。

やさしい英語で： The soft part inside a fruit that you can eat.

• This juice contains orange pulp.
• Scoop the pulp out with a spoon.
• Do you prefer juice with or without pulp?

類義語： flesh

よく使う表現： orange pulp, fruit pulp, juice with pulp

どろどろの塊、ペースト

物をつぶしたり水でふやかしたりしてできる、湿った柔らかい塊。

やさしい英語で： A soft, wet, thick mixture made when something is crushed or becomes very soggy.

• The wet paper became pulp.
• Mash the cooked beans into a soft pulp.
• After hours in the rain, the cardboard was a soggy pulp.

類義語： mush, mash

よく使う表現： a soggy pulp, reduce to pulp, beat to pulp

パルプ

木を細かく砕き、水や薬品で処理して作る紙の原料。

やさしい英語で： Wood broken into tiny pieces and treated with water and chemicals to make paper.

• The factory makes wood pulp.
• Paper is produced from pulp in this mill.
• They use recycled pulp to make packaging.

類義語： wood pulp

よく使う表現： wood pulp, pulp mill, paper pulp

パルプ小説、大衆小説

刺激的な物語を載せた安価な本や雑誌。かつては粗い紙に印刷された。

やさしい英語で： Cheap books or magazines with exciting, sometimes shocking stories, traditionally printed on rough paper.

• He enjoys reading old pulp.
• She collected detective pulps from the 1930s.
• The writer began her career in pulp magazines.

類義語： pulp fiction

よく使う表現： pulp fiction, pulp magazine, pulp novel