ripper

引き裂く道具、リッパー

素材を引き裂いたり切り離したりする道具や機械。

やさしい英語で： A tool or machine that tears or cuts material apart.

• Use a seam ripper to remove the stitches.
• The tractor pulled a ripper through the hard ground.
• This ripper has a sharp metal tip.

よく使う表現： seam ripper, soil ripper

切り裂き殺人犯

刃物などで人を殺し、被害者の体をひどく切り裂く殺人犯。

やさしい英語で： A murderer who uses a sharp weapon and often badly cuts victims’ bodies.

• Police hunted the ripper.
• The ripper attacked his victims with a knife.
• Another body was linked to the ripper.

類義語： killer, murderer

よく使う表現： serial ripper, hunt the ripper

引き裂く人

物を引き裂いたり切り刻んだりする人。

やさしい英語で： A person who tears or cuts something apart.

• The paper ripper tore each sheet into strips.
• Two rippers prepared the cloth for recycling.
• He was the fastest ripper on the team.

よく使う表現： paper ripper, cloth ripper

任命権移管法

他者が持っていた役職者の任命権を行政の長や委員会に与える法律。

やさしい英語で： A law that gives an executive or board the power to choose officials previously chosen by others.

• The legislature passed a ripper bill.
• The ripper gave the mayor control over official appointments.
• Critics opposed the new ripper act.

よく使う表現： ripper bill, ripper act

最高の、素晴らしい

とてもよい、またはとても楽しい。

やさしい英語で： Very good or enjoyable.

• We had a ripper day.
• That was a ripper game of cricket.
• She threw a ripper party last weekend.

類義語： excellent, great, fantastic

反対語： awful

よく使う表現： a ripper day, a ripper game, a ripper party