stigma

スティグマ、汚名

人や状態、行為に対して社会が向ける、恥だという見方や悪い評価。

やさしい英語で： A feeling of shame or negative judgement that society attaches to a person, condition, or activity.

• The illness carries a social stigma.
• She wants to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health problems.
• They faced stigma because of their past convictions.

使い方： stigma attached to something (There is still stigma attached to mental illness.); the stigma of something (He struggled with the stigma of unemployment.)

類義語： disgrace, shame

よく使う表現： social stigma, stigma attached to something, stigma of something

柱頭

花粉を受け止め、種ができる過程の始まりとなる、花の粘り気のある部分。

やさしい英語で： The sticky part of a flower where pollen lands and begins the process of making seeds.

• Pollen landed on the stigma.
• The stigma is at the top of the pistil.
• A bee carried pollen to another flower’s stigma.

類義語： summit

よく使う表現： flower stigma, sticky stigma, stigma surface