bingo
ビンゴ
解説 Definition
bingo は、数字をそろえるゲームのビンゴという意味です。日本語の「ビンゴ」とほぼ同じですが、英語ではゲーム名やそのゲームで当たりを示す語として使われます。
A game in which players mark numbers on cards as the numbers are called, aiming to complete a required line or pattern. “Bingo!” is also the call used to announce a winning card.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
数字カードの列や所定の形がそろうゲーム名が bingo。条件を満たした瞬間に “Bingo!” と叫ぶため、ゲーム名と当たりの合図が同じになる。play bingo、a bingo card、shout bingo を一組で覚え、日本語と同様に「その通り！」の間投詞にも広がることを押さえる。
Picture a card filled with numbers and a caller announcing them one by one. Players mark matching squares, and the first person to complete the required line or pattern calls “Bingo!” This makes the word easy to remember in three common combinations: play bingo, a bingo card, and shout bingo. The same winning cry later developed an informal conversational use meaning “Exactly!” or “That’s it,” but this entry centers on the game. Unlike many game names, bingo can therefore name both the activity and the word that announces success.
例文
We played bingo after dinner.
私たちは夕食後にビンゴをしました。
My grandmother enjoys bingo at the community center.
祖母は地域センターでビンゴを楽しんでいます。
The children shouted bingo when their cards were full.
カードがそろうと、子どもたちはビンゴと叫びました。
bingo の類義語・関連語
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bingo の語源・成り立ち Etymology
bingo は20世紀のアメリカ英語で、豆を置いて遊ぶ beano という遊び名から生まれた語とされます。bean「豆」が元で、当たりを告げる叫びが定着してゲーム名になったので、「ビンゴ！」がそのまま成功の声になるわけです。関連語は bean, beano。
Bingo emerged in American English in the early twentieth century as the name of a number-matching game. The game had previously been widely known as beano because players used beans to cover called numbers on their cards. According to the usual account, bingo developed as an altered winning cry and then became the game’s name. The precise circumstances behind that alteration are not firmly documented, so the secure connection is with the earlier American game called beano and its use of beans as markers.
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