whack

強くたたく、殴る

人や物を、手や平たい物などで強くたたく。

やさしい英語で： To hit someone or something hard, often with a flat object or your hand.

• He whacked the ball.
• She whacked the table with her hand.
• A falling branch whacked me on the shoulder.

使い方： whack someone/something with something (He whacked the ball with a bat.); whack someone on something (She whacked him on the arm.)

類義語： hit, strike, smack

よく使う表現： whack someone hard, whack a ball, whack with something

分配する、山分けする

何かを複数の人に分け、それぞれが取り分を得るようにする。

やさしい英語で： To divide something among several people so each gets a share.

• They whacked up the money.
• The thieves whacked the spoils equally.
• We whacked up the profits among all four partners.

使い方： whack something up among someone (They whacked the profits up among the partners.)

類義語： divide, share out, distribute

よく使う表現： whack up something, whack the spoils

試み、挑戦する機会

何かをやってみること、またはその機会。

やさしい英語で： An attempt to do something, or a chance to try it.

• Let me have a whack.
• She took a whack at solving the puzzle.
• Do you want another whack at it?

使い方： take a whack at something/doing something (Let me take a whack at fixing the bike.)

類義語： try, go, attempt, shot

よく使う表現： take a whack, whack at something, give someone a whack

バックスラッシュ

コンピューターのファイルの場所を示す際に使う逆斜線のくだけた呼び名。

やさしい英語で： An informal name for the backslash symbol used in computer file paths.

• Type a whack after the drive letter.
• He said whack when reading the file path aloud.
• In this path, two whacks separate the folder names.

類義語： backslash

よく使う表現： type a whack, colon whack