sap

樹液

植物の中を流れ、養分やミネラルを運ぶ液体。

やさしい英語で： The liquid that moves through a plant and carries the food and minerals it needs.

• Sap dripped from the tree.
• They collect maple sap to make syrup.
• In spring, sap rises through the trunk.

よく使う表現： tree sap, maple sap, sap flow, plant sap

お人よし、間抜け

簡単にだまされたり、人に頼まれて利用されたりする人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who is easily fooled or persuaded to do things for other people.

• Some poor sap paid for everything.
• He felt like a sap after believing her story.
• Those saps thought the fake tickets were real.

類義語： fool, sucker, simpleton

よく使う表現： a poor sap, some poor sap, a gullible sap

奪う、弱める

人の気力や体力、自信を少しずつ奪う。

やさしい英語で： To gradually take away someone’s energy, strength, or confidence.

• The heat saps my energy.
• Months of criticism sapped her confidence.
• The illness had sapped him of his strength.

使い方： sap someone of something (The long illness sapped him of strength.)

類義語： drain, weaken, deplete

反対語： strengthen

よく使う表現： sap someone’s strength, sap someone’s energy, sap someone’s confidence