distorts
歪む
解説 Definition
distorts は distort（歪める、歪む）の三人称単数現在形です。形や音、事実などが本来の姿から歪む、または歪められることを表します。
Causes something to lose its original or accurate shape, sound, appearance, or meaning, or becomes altered in this way. It is the third-person singular present form of distort, used with a singular subject.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 distort に三人称単数現在の -s を付けた形で、発音は /dɪˈstɔːrts/。主語が glass、lens、speaker など単数なら distorts を使う。語源上の「ねじる」を核に、レンズが直線を曲げ、スピーカーが音を変え、偏った説明が事実を歪める場面をつなげて覚える。
Distorts is the third-person singular present form of distort: add -s, producing /dɪˈstɔːrts/. Use it when the subject is singular, as in The glass distorts the view or A poor lens distorts straight lines. Keep the historical image of twisting in mind: something is pulled away from its proper form. That image extends naturally from bent-looking shapes to unclear speaker sound and then to inaccurate versions of facts. Distorts normally identifies a recurring effect or a general property, while distorted often describes the altered result.
例文
The glass distorts the view of the street.
そのガラス越しには通りの景色が歪んで見えます。
Loud music distorts through the small speaker.
大きな音楽は小さなスピーカーを通ると歪みます。
A poor camera lens distorts straight lines near the edge of the photo.
質の悪いカメラレンズは、写真の端にある直線を歪ませます。
distorts の類義語・関連語
distorts の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 distorquere から。dis-（離れて・別方向に）+ torquere（ねじる）で「別方向にねじ曲げる」が原義。関連語: torture（拷問＝体をねじる苦痛）、torque（回転力）。物理的なねじれから意味の歪曲まで広がった語。
Distorts is the third-person singular present form of distort. Distort comes from Latin distorquere, combining dis-, conveying separation or movement in different directions, with torquere, “to twist.” The original physical idea was twisting something out of its normal shape. English later extended the verb to altered vision, sound, representation, and facts. Torque and torture are historically related through the same Latin root concerning twisting.
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