意味一覧 (2件)
乱闘
解説 Definition
酒場、路上、試合後の会場などで起きる、騒然とした集団的な殴り合いを指す名詞。出来事・事件としての「乱闘」に焦点があり、ニュースや警察発表では a brawl broke out / broke up a brawl の形でよく使われる。
A brawl is a noisy and rough fight involving several people. It usually happens suddenly in a public or uncontrolled situation. The word suggests confusion and violence rather than an organized fight.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
名詞の brawl は、「一つの事件として数えられる乱闘」と覚えると定着します。a brawl broke out なら「乱闘が勃発した」、break up a brawl なら「乱闘を止める」。中心にあるのは勝敗ではなく、場の秩序が崩れて複数人が暴力に巻き込まれた状態です。duel のような決闘の形式性はなく、scuffle より規模や騒ぎが大きいことが多い語です。
Brawl sounds rough, and the word is used for a messy fight with several people. Think of bar brawl or street brawl, where the scene becomes wild and hard to control. A quarrel is with words, but a brawl is chaotic physical violence.
例文
A brawl broke out in the bar after someone made an insulting comment.
誰かが侮辱的な発言をしたあと、バーで乱闘が起きた。
Security guards broke up the brawl near the stage.
警備員たちはステージ近くの乱闘を止めた。
Several people were arrested after the late-night brawl.
深夜の乱闘のあと、数人が逮捕された。
乱闘する
(意味 2)解説 Definition
複数の人がその場の勢いで入り乱れ、騒々しく殴り合う・もみ合うことを表す動詞。参加者が理性的に争うというより、店内や観客席などで制御を失って暴れる動きに焦点がある。名詞「乱闘」から、その場で乱闘状態になる動作を表す。
To brawl means to get into a noisy, uncontrolled fight with several people. It is used when people hit, push, or struggle with each other in a confused and violent way, often in places like bars, streets, or stadiums. The word focuses less on a calm or planned conflict and more on a sudden outbreak of rough fighting.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
brawl は殴り合いや大声の口論が入り混じる「乱闘をする」です。語源は中英語で「騒ぐ、けんかする」を表した語とされ、理屈より騒がしい衝突のイメージが中心です。barroom brawl や brawl with police のように、公共の場で複数人がもみ合う場面に合います。fight より荒く集団的、quarrel より身体的だと覚えます。
You can remember goose by grouping it with other water birds such as duck and swan. In this meaning, it refers to the wild bird that lives near lakes, rivers, and wetlands and often travels in groups by season. It is common in expressions like wild goose and a flock of geese, and the plural form is geese, not gooses. Picture a migrating bird in nature rather than a bird kept on a farm.
例文
Two drunk men started to brawl outside the bar after midnight.
真夜中を過ぎて、酔った二人の男がバーの外で乱闘し始めた。
Fans brawled in the stands when the game became too heated.
試合が白熱しすぎて、観客席でファンが乱闘した。
The argument quickly turned into a brawl, and security had to pull people apart.
口論はすぐに乱闘になり、警備員が人々を引き離さなければならなかった。
brawl の語源・成り立ち Etymology
brawl は古フランス語 brailler「やかましくわめく」にさかのぼるとされ、出発点は「殴り合い」より「怒鳴り合い」です。bray や brawler を並べると、騒がしい声の衝突がそのまま乱闘へ発展した語だと見えてきます。
"Brawl" probably comes from Old French "brailler," meaning to shout noisily or quarrel loudly. The word seems to have begun with the idea of rough, noisy arguing rather than physical fighting. Later it shifted to mean a fight itself, especially one that grows out of loud disorder; "brawler" is a related form.
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