roof

屋根

建物の上部を覆い、雨や雪が中に入るのを防ぐ部分。

やさしい英語で： The outside covering at the top of a building that keeps rain and snow out.

• The roof is leaking.
• They replaced the old roof last summer.
• Snow covered the roofs of every house.

よく使う表現： flat roof, roof tiles, repair the roof, under one roof

天井、口蓋

口や洞窟など、空洞の内側にある上の面。

やさしい英語で： The top surface inside a hollow space, such as your mouth or a cave.

• My tongue touched the roof of my mouth.
• Water dripped from the cave's roof.
• Workers checked the tunnel roof for cracks.

使い方： the roof of something (The hot soup burned the roof of my mouth.)

類義語： ceiling

よく使う表現： roof of something, cave roof, tunnel roof

屋根を葺く

建物の上に、雨風などを防ぐ屋根を設ける。

やさしい英語で： To put a protective top covering on a building.

• We need to roof the shed.
• The workers roofed our house in three days.
• They are roofing the barn with metal sheets.

使い方： roof something with something (They roofed the cottage with slate.)

類義語： cover

よく使う表現： roof a house, roof a shed, roof with tiles