distracted
気を散らした
解説 Definition
distracted は distract（気を散らす）の過去形・過去分詞です。何かが人の注意をそらしたことを表し、形容詞として「気が散っている」という状態にもよく使われます。
Distracted is the past tense and past participle of distract, meaning that someone or something caused attention to move away from the main activity. It can also describe a person who is unable to concentrate because something else occupies their mind.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 distract に規則的な -ed を付けた過去形・過去分詞で、語末は /ɪd/ と発音します。dis-「離れて」＋「引く」という成り立ちから、注意が本筋から引き離される場面を想像しましょう。The noise distracted me なら「音が私の注意をそらした」です。
Distracted is the regular past and past-participle form of distract, made by adding -ed; because distract ends in a t sound, the ending is pronounced /ɪd/. Picture someone’s attention being pulled away from its proper track. In The noise distracted me, the noise caused the change of attention. The same form is often adjectival, as in a distracted student, describing someone who cannot focus. Link it with attract and contract: all contain the tract element connected historically with pulling, while dis- suggests movement apart or away.
例文
The noise distracted me.
その音で私は気が散りました。
Her phone distracted her during class.
授業中、彼女は携帯電話に気を取られました。
The bright lights distracted the driver.
明るいライトが運転手の注意をそらしました。
distracted の類義語・関連語
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distracted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
distracted はラテン語 distrahere「引き離す」の過去分詞に由来し、dis-「離れて」+ tract「引く」から成ります。心が本筋から引っぱられて離れる感覚が元なので「気を散らした」となり、attract や contract も同じ語根です。
Distracted comes from distract plus the regular -ed ending. Distract ultimately derives from Latin distrahere, “to pull apart or draw away,” formed from dis-, “apart,” and trahere, “to pull or draw.” Its Latin participial stem contributed the element tract. The physical idea of pulling something away developed into the mental sense of drawing a person’s attention away from its proper object.
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