crowding
混雑している
解説 Definition
crowding は crowd（押し寄せる、混み合う）の現在分詞・動名詞形です。人や物が多く集まって、場所が混雑している様子を表します。
The present participle or gerund of crowd, describing people, vehicles, or other things gathering closely in a limited space and making it congested. It can also describe the continuing action of pressing around a person or place.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 crowd「押し寄せる・混み合う」に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、語末の綴りは変わりません。発音も crowd /kraʊd/ に /ɪŋ/ を続けます。people are crowding near the gate のように、人々が狭い場所へ集まって互いの空間を圧迫する場面と結び付けて覚えましょう。
Connect crowding directly with the base verb crowd, meaning to gather or press closely together. The spelling does not change before -ing, and the pronunciation is crowd /kraʊd/ followed by /ɪŋ/. Picture people crowding near a ticket gate or fans crowding around a stage: they enter the same limited area until movement becomes difficult. This physical image distinguishes crowding, an ongoing action, from crowded, which usually describes the resulting condition of a place.
例文
People are crowding near the ticket gate.
人々が改札の近くで混雑しています。
Fans were crowding around the stage before the show.
開演前、ファンたちはステージの周りに集まって混雑していました。
Cars kept crowding the narrow street during the festival.
祭りの間、車が狭い通りに次々と集まり混雑していました。
crowding の類義語・関連語
crowding の語源・成り立ち Etymology
crowding は crowd「押し合う・群がる」に -ing が付いた形で、crowd は中英語 crouden「押し込む・押し寄せる」に由来する。もとは人や物が互いに圧をかけて詰まるイメージなので、「混雑している」はそのままの意味で、crowded や crowd も同根。
Crowding is formed from crowd and the participial or gerund suffix -ing. Crowd comes from Middle English crouden, meaning to press, push, or move in a mass. Its historical sense of people or things pressing against one another naturally developed into the modern idea of gathering so closely that a place becomes congested. The suffix -ing marks the action as continuing or treats it as an activity.
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