truck

トラック

荷物を運んだり重いトレーラーを引いたりする大型の道路車両。

やさしい英語で： A large road vehicle used for carrying goods or pulling a heavy trailer.

• The truck is full of boxes.
• Two trucks delivered wood to the building site.
• Who parked that truck outside our house?

類義語： lorry

よく使う表現： delivery truck, truck driver, drive a truck

トラックで運ぶ

トラックで荷物をどこかへ運ぶこと。

やさしい英語で： To carry goods somewhere in a large road vehicle.

• They truck food to the camp.
• The company trucked supplies across the border.
• Sand is trucked in from a nearby quarry.

使い方： truck something to/from somewhere (They truck fresh fruit from the farms to the city.)

類義語： transport, haul

よく使う表現： truck something in, truck something out, truck something to somewhere

トラックを運転する

特に仕事として、長い距離をトラックで走ること。

やさしい英語で： To drive a large goods vehicle, especially over long distances as a job.

• My uncle trucks for a living.
• She trucked through the night to reach Denver.
• He has been trucking for twenty years.

使い方： truck across/through somewhere (He trucks across the country every week.)

類義語： drive a truck

よく使う表現： truck across something, truck for someone, truck all night

進み続ける、どんどん進む

素早く進む、または困難があっても元気に進み続けること。

やさしい英語で： To move along quickly or keep going with energy despite difficulties.

• We were trucking along the road.
• She trucked past us with her heavy backpack.
• Despite the setbacks, the team kept on trucking.

類義語： keep going, press on

反対語： stop

よく使う表現： keep on truck, truck along, truck down something