disrupting
混乱させる
解説 Definition
disrupting は disrupt（混乱させる、中断させる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。予定、活動、流れなどを妨げて正常に進まなくすることを表します。
Disrupting is the present-participle and gerund form of disrupt. It describes causing an activity, service, process, or normal pattern to be interrupted, disordered, or unable to continue in its usual way.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
disrupting は disrupt に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、/dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/ と発音します。disrupt traffic, class, service, supply のように、正常な流れを乱して進行不能にする場面で使います。interrupt が一時的に遮ることも表すのに対し、disrupt は秩序や機能まで崩す強い語だと覚えましょう。
Disrupting is made by adding -ing directly to disrupt, and it is pronounced /dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/. Learn it with common objects such as disrupting traffic, a class, train services, supply chains, or online orders. Imagine a normal flow being broken so that the whole activity no longer works smoothly. That image reflects the historical idea of breaking apart. Compared with interrupting, which may describe a brief break or someone speaking over another person, disrupting often suggests wider disorder or damage to normal operation.
例文
The loud noise is disrupting the class.
大きな音が授業を混乱させています。
Heavy snow was disrupting train services across the city.
大雪が市内全域の列車運行を混乱させていました。
The company apologized for disrupting customers' online orders.
その会社は顧客のオンライン注文を混乱させたことを謝罪しました。
disrupting の類義語・関連語
disrupting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
disrupting はラテン語 dis-「ばらばらに」＋ rumpere「壊す・破る」に由来し、disrupt は「引き裂いて秩序を壊す」が原義です。単なる停止ではなく、まとまりを壊して混乱させる感じがこの語に残っています。関連語に rupture, interrupt があります。
Disrupt comes from Latin disruptus, the past participle of disrumpere, “to break apart.” That verb combines dis-, expressing separation, with rumpere, “to break” or “burst.” English rupture and interrupt belong to the same broad Latin word family. The physical image of something being broken into separate parts developed into the modern figurative sense of disturbing an established order, activity, or flow. Disrupting is the regular -ing form, created by adding -ing to disrupt.
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