disrupted
混乱した
解説 Definition
混乱したとは、秩序や正常な状態が乱れてしまった様子を表す言葉です。予期しない出来事や障害によって、計画や活動が中断された状態を指します。技術的な問題、自然災害、社会的な変化などによって引き起こされることがあります。
Interrupted or thrown into disorder so that a process, activity, or system cannot continue normally. It describes schedules, meetings, services, supply chains, and similar arrangements affected by an unexpected event or obstacle.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
disrupted は disrupt の過去形・過去分詞で、ここでは「正常な流れを妨げられ、混乱した」という形容詞的用法です。dis-「離れて、ばらばらに」と rupture「破裂」の共通する rupt「壊す」を手掛かりに、disrupted schedule、meeting、supply chain のように、本来続く流れが断たれた場面で覚えます。語尾 -ed は /ɪd/ です。
See disrupted as the past participle of disrupt used adjectivally. The root rupt also appears in rupture, helping you picture a normal flow being broken apart. Use that image for a disrupted schedule, a disrupted meeting, or severely disrupted supply chains: each was operating or expected to operate normally until something interfered. Unlike merely delayed, disrupted can involve disorder, interruption, or wider operational failure. Because disrupt ends with the /t/ sound, adding -ed creates an extra syllable, so disrupted ends in /ɪd/.
例文
The flight schedule was disrupted due to the heavy snowstorm.
大雪嵐のために飛行スケジュールが混乱しました。
The meeting was disrupted when the fire alarm went off unexpectedly.
火災警報が突然鳴り、会議が混乱しました。
Supply chains were severely disrupted during the global pandemic.
サプライチェーンは世界的なパンデミックの間に深刻に混乱しました。
disrupted の類義語・関連語
disrupted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
disrupted は disrupt の過去分詞形で、ラテン語 disruptus に由来します。dis-「ばらばらに」+ rumpere「壊す」から成り、『一体のものを引き裂く』が原義なので、『秩序が崩れて混乱した』という意味につながります。関連語は rupture、corrupt です。
Disrupted is the past participle of disrupt. Disrupt comes from Latin disruptus, the past participle of disrumpere, “to break apart.” That verb combines dis-, conveying separation or dispersal, with rumpere, “to break.” The same root appears in rupture. The literal idea of something being broken into parts developed naturally into the modern sense of interrupting an activity or destroying its normal order.
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