diversifying
多様化する
解説 Definition
diversifying は diversify（多様化する、多様化させる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。事業、投資、商品、活動などの種類や範囲を広げることを表します。
Increasing the variety of products, activities, investments, or other elements, or causing them to become less concentrated in one area. The form can describe an action in progress or function as a gerund naming that strategy.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 diversify の語末は子音字＋y なので、-ing を付けるときは y を残して diversifying となります。発音の中心も原形と同じ「ダイヴァーサファイ」です。product line、crops、investments などを目的語に取り、「種類を増やして一つへの依存を減らす」場面で覚えましょう。
Start with diversify, “to make or become more varied.” Although verbs ending in consonant plus y often change y to i before some suffixes, -ing is different: keep the y and add -ing, producing diversifying. The pronunciation preserves the sound pattern of diversify before the final “ing.” Picture a company adding products, farmers growing several crops, or a fund spreading money across markets. In each case, diversifying increases variety and usually reduces dependence on a single option. Useful collocations include diversifying investments, diversifying a product line, and diversifying crops.
例文
The company is diversifying its product line.
その会社は製品ラインを多様化しています。
Farmers are diversifying their crops to reduce risk.
農家はリスクを減らすために作物を多様化しています。
By diversifying its investments, the fund became less dependent on one market.
投資を多様化することで、その基金は一つの市場への依存を減らしました。
diversifying の類義語・関連語
diversifying の語源・成り立ち Etymology
diversifying は diversify＋-ing。diverse はラテン語 diversus「別の方向を向いた」に由来し、さらに di-「離れて」＋vertere「向きを変える」に分けられます。つまり「一方向から分かれていく」感覚から「多様化する」と理解できます。関連語は diverse, reverse。
Diversifying is the -ing form of diversify. Diversify was built from diverse and the verb-forming suffix -ify, meaning “to make,” so its structure suggests “to make diverse.” Diverse ultimately comes from Latin diversus, “turned in different directions,” related to divertere, formed from dis-, “apart,” and vertere, “to turn.” The spelling keeps the final y of diversify before -ing, unlike forms such as diversified, where y changes to i.
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