chafe
意味一覧 (2件)
擦れる
解説 Definition
皮膚や表面がこすれて炎症を起こすこと。また、いらだちや不満を感じること。
Chafe means to rub against skin or another surface and cause soreness or irritation. It can also mean to feel annoyed or impatient because of rules, limits, or unfair treatment. The word is used both for physical rubbing and for emotional frustration.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
この chafe は、皮膚や表面が何度もこすれて赤くなる、ひりひりする、痛むという物理的な意味で覚えます。rub は単に「こする」ですが、chafe は rough collar、shoes、straps、skin などと結びつき、摩擦の結果として不快感や炎症が出る点が重要です。靴ずれ、きつい服の縫い目、バッグの肩ひもで肌が痛む場面を思い浮かべると定着します。
Remember chafe as rubbing that becomes sore, not just simple rubbing. Shoes, rough collars, seams, or straps can chafe your skin again and again. The key idea is friction plus discomfort, redness, or pain. This physical image also helps explain why the word can describe irritation in feelings.
例文
The rough collar of the shirt began to chafe against his neck after hours of wear.
ざらざらしたシャツの襟が何時間も着ているうちに首を擦り始めた。
She chafed at the restrictive rules imposed by the new management.
彼女は新しい経営陣が課した制約の多いルールに苛立ちを感じた。
Runners often apply petroleum jelly to areas that tend to chafe during long races.
ランナーは長距離レース中に擦れやすい部分にワセリンを塗ることが多い。
いら立たせる
(意味 2)解説 Definition
人や状況、規則などが相手をじわじわ不快にし、いら立たせることを表します。特に chafe at rules のように、制限や扱いに不満を感じて反発する文脈でよく使われます。
To chafe means to make someone feel slowly and increasingly annoyed or upset. It is often used when rules, limits, delays, or unfair treatment continue to bother a person over time. In phrases like chafe at rules, it suggests not just simple anger, but growing irritation and resistance to what is holding someone back.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
chafe は annoy や irritate に近いが、一瞬の怒りよりも、制限・遅れ・不公平な扱いなどが何度も心に当たってじわじわ不快になる感じがある。よく chafe at restrictions / rules / delays の形で出るので、at の後に「いら立ちの原因」が来ると覚えるとよい。別エントリの「擦れる」は物理的な摩擦の意味で、ここではその不快感が感情に移った用法として区別する。
Think of chafe as being close to annoy or irritate, but with a slower and more repeated feeling. It often happens when rules, delays, or unfair treatment keep bothering someone again and again. A useful pattern is chafe at restrictions, chafe at rules, or chafe at delays, where at introduces the cause of the irritation. The physical meaning "rub and cause soreness" is a different entry, so here remember the emotional sense that grew from that discomfort.
例文
Many teenagers chafe at strict rules from their parents.
多くの10代は親の厳しいルールにいら立つ。
He began to chafe at the long delays and lack of clear answers.
彼は長い遅れと明確な返答のなさにだんだんいら立ってきた。
Workers often chafe when they feel they are being treated unfairly.
不公平に扱われていると感じると、労働者はいら立ちやすい。
chafe の語源・成り立ち Etymology
chafe は古フランス語 chaufer を経て、ラテン語 calefacere「熱くする」にさかのぼる語です。cal-「熱い」+ facere「作る」で、こすれると熱や痛みが出る感覚から「擦れてひりひりする」という意味へ広がりました。関連語は chauffeur, calefy。
Chafe came into English through Old French chauf(f)er, from Latin calefacere, meaning "to make warm" or "heat." It is built from cal- "warm" and facere "to make." The idea seems to have shifted from producing heat to the burning feeling caused by rubbing. Related English words include chauffeur and calefy.
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