setting

設定

機械やソフトの動き方を決める項目。

やさしい英語で： An option on a machine or program that controls how it works.

• Change the setting to save power.
• Check your phone’s privacy settings.
• The machine remembers the last setting you used.

よく使う表現： change a setting, default setting, privacy setting, volume setting

舞台、時代背景

物語や演劇の舞台となる場所、時代、状況。

やさしい英語で： The place, time, and situation in which a story or performance happens.

• The story has a modern setting.
• The setting of the play is ancient Rome.
• She chose a seaside town as the setting for her novel.

使い方： the setting of/for something (A small village is the setting for the novel.)

類義語： background, context

よく使う表現： historical setting, setting of something, rural setting

配置、沈むこと、硬化

物を置く行為や、太陽が沈むような過程。

やさしい英語で： The act of putting something in place, or a process such as the sun going down.

• The setting of the sun filled the sky with colour.
• The setting of the table took several minutes.
• Cold weather can slow the setting of concrete.

使い方： the setting of something (We watched the setting of the sun.)

よく使う表現： setting of something, setting of the sun, setting of concrete

沈む

太陽などの天体が地平線の下へ沈んでいく様子。

やさしい英語で： Describing the sun or another object in the sky as it moves below the horizon.

• We watched the setting sun.
• The setting moon disappeared behind the hills.
• The setting sun cast long shadows across the field.

反対語： rising

よく使う表現： setting sun, setting moon, light of setting sun