chirping
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解説 Definition
chirping は chirp（鳥や虫が短く高い声で鳴く、さえずる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。小鳥の軽い鳴き声などを表すときによく使われます。
Chirping is the present participle or gerund of chirp and describes a bird or insect making short, high-pitched sounds. It may appear in a continuous verb phrase or refer to the repeated light sounds themselves.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
chirping は原形 chirp「鳥や虫が短く高い声で鳴く」に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、発音は /ˈtʃɜːrpɪŋ/。連続した美しい歌を示す sing より、一回一回が短く軽い音を表すので、sparrows chirping や crickets chirping と覚えましょう。
Begin with chirp, a word shaped to imitate a short, high bird or insect sound. Add -ing without changing the spelling to make chirping, pronounced /ˈtʃɜːrpɪŋ/. Imagine waking to sparrows chirping outside the window or hearing crickets chirping at night. Each sound is brief and high, often repeated. This distinguishes chirping from singing, which can suggest a longer musical sequence, and from chattering, which suggests rapid, less musical noise. The familiar patterns birds chirping and crickets chirping make the meaning easy to retrieve.
例文
A bird is chirping outside my window.
窓の外で鳥がさえずっています。
We woke up to birds chirping in the garden.
私たちは庭で鳥がさえずる声で目を覚ましました。
The quiet morning was filled with sparrows chirping in the trees.
静かな朝、木々の中でスズメがさえずる声が響いていました。
chirping の類義語・関連語
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chirping の語源・成り立ち Etymology
chirping は英語 chirp「チュンチュン鳴く」に -ing が付いた形で、chirp 自体は鳥の声をまねた擬音語です。借用語ではなく、音から意味が生まれた語なので「さえずる」が直感的に結びつきます。twitter や chatter も近い響きの仲間です。
Chirping is the -ing form of chirp, created by adding the regular participial suffix without changing the base spelling. Chirp arose in English as an imitative, or onomatopoeic, word representing the short, sharp sounds of small birds and insects. Its sound and spelling have varied historically, as is common with echoic vocabulary. The modern form refers both to producing such sounds and, as a gerund, to the activity or sound itself.
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