staple

ホチキスの針、ステープル

紙や他の材料をまとめて留める、小さく曲げられた金属片。

やさしい英語で： A small bent piece of metal that holds sheets of paper or other materials together.

• Remove the staple from the paper.
• One staple held all the sheets together.
• The staples left small holes in the documents.

よく使う表現： remove a staple, metal staple, staple remover

主食、必需品

人々が日常的に必要とし、使う基本的な食べ物や物資。

やさしい英語で： A basic food or other supply that people need and use regularly.

• Rice is a staple in many homes.
• Flour and beans are useful kitchen staples.
• Which staple provides most of their daily energy?

使い方： a staple of something (Bread is a staple of their diet.)

類義語： basic necessity, essential

よく使う表現： dietary staple, household staple, staple of something

定番、おなじみの要素

繰り返し登場し、全体の中でおなじみの一部となっているもの。

やさしい英語で： Something that appears often and is a familiar part of something larger.

• That joke is a staple of his shows.
• Ghost stories became a staple of the magazine.
• These characters remain staples of children’s television.

使い方： a staple of something (Car chases are a staple of action films.)

類義語： regular feature, fixture

よく使う表現： staple of comedy, television staple, staple of something

短繊維

他の繊維とより合わせて糸にできる、短い天然または人工の繊維。

やさしい英語で： A short natural or artificial fibre that can be twisted with others to make thread.

• This cotton has a short staple.
• The mill buys wool with a longer staple.
• Staple length affects the strength of the yarn.

類義語： fibre

よく使う表現： short staple, long staple, cotton staple

ホチキスで留める

紙などを小さな曲がった金属の針で留める。

やさしい英語で： To join paper or other materials using small bent pieces of metal.

• Please staple these pages together.
• He stapled a notice to the wooden board.
• Have you stapled the receipts to the form?

使い方： staple something together (Staple the pages together before handing them in.); staple something to something (She stapled the label to the bag.)

よく使う表現： staple something together, staple the pages, staple something to something

繊維長で分類する

綿や羊毛などを、繊維の長さや質によって分ける。

やさしい英語で： To sort cotton, wool, or similar material by the length or quality of its fibres.

• Workers staple the cotton by fibre length.
• The wool was stapled before sale.
• They stapled each batch according to quality.

類義語： sort, grade

よく使う表現： staple the cotton, staple the wool

指定交易市場の

かつて特定の商品を公認で売買していた町や市場に関する。

やさしい英語で： Connected with a town or market where particular goods were officially bought and sold.

• The merchants gathered in a staple town.
• Wool passed through the staple port.
• The king granted privileges to the staple market.

よく使う表現： staple town, staple port, staple market

商業上定着した

商取引で定着している、または市場で日常的に売られている。

やさしい英語で： Firmly established in trade or regularly sold in a market.

• The port depended on its staple trade.
• Wool became a staple commodity in the region.
• Merchants dealt mainly in staple goods.

類義語： established

よく使う表現： staple trade, staple goods, staple commodity