同化した
解説 Definition
assimilated は、ある人や集団が別の文化・社会・環境になじみ、同化した状態を表します。また、情報や知識が十分に理解され、自分のものになったという意味でも使われます。
Integrated into a different community, culture, language, or system so thoroughly that the person or thing has become similar to its surroundings. It may also describe information that has been fully absorbed and understood.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 assimilate「同化させる・取り込んで理解する」に規則語尾 -ed が付いた過去分詞形で、語末は /ɪd/ と発音します。語根は similar と同じ「似た」の発想です。be assimilated into a community の形で、文化・語・人が周囲に溶け込み、似た状態になった場面を思い浮かべます。
Begin with the verb assimilate, “to absorb or make similar,” and add the regular past-participle ending -ed; the ending is pronounced as a separate /ɪd/ syllable. The link with similar captures the central image: something becomes like the surrounding group or system. Picture children becoming assimilated into a local community or foreign words being assimilated into English. The frequent pattern be assimilated into emphasizes movement into a larger whole. For knowledge, the same image means information has been absorbed until it feels fully understood.
例文
The children became assimilated into the local community within a year.
その子どもたちは1年以内に地元の地域社会に同化しました。
Many foreign words have been assimilated into English.
多くの外来語が英語に同化しています。
The new employees felt fully assimilated after the training program.
新入社員たちは研修後、すっかり職場になじんだと感じました。
assimilated の類義語・関連語
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assimilated の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の接頭辞「ad-（～へ）」と語根「similis（類似）」が組み合わさり、「似ている状態へと導く」意味になりました。同語根に「similar（類似の）」があります。周囲に自分を似せて取り込む過程が、そのまま「同化した」となる理由です。
Assimilated is the past-tense and past-participle form of assimilate, made with the regular suffix -ed. Assimilate entered English from Latin assimilare, based on ad-, “toward,” and similis, “like or similar.” Through sound adjustment, ad- appears as as- before the following consonant. The original idea was to make one thing like another, which developed naturally into the modern senses of cultural integration and the mental absorption of information.
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