drawers
引き出し
解説 Definition
「drawers」は、家具（タンス・机・キャビネットなど）に取り付けられた引き出しを指す名詞の複数形です。取っ手を引いて開閉し、物を収納するための箱状の部品を指します。また、英国英語では下着（ズボン下）を意味することもあります。
Drawers are sliding, box-shaped storage compartments built into furniture such as desks, cabinets, or chests. The word is the plural of drawer; in some British usage, drawers can also refer to undergarments covering the lower body.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
drawers は drawer「引き出し」の規則的な複数形で、語末に -s を付け、最後は /z/ と発音する。draw「引く」＋ -er「物」で「引いて開ける物」と捉え、desk drawers や put clothes in the drawers の型で覚える。英国英語では古風に下着を指す場合もあるため文脈に注意する。
Drawers is the regular plural of drawer: simply add -s, pronounced /z/ after the final voiced sound. Connect drawer with draw in its older sense “pull”: a drawer is a storage box that you pull outward to open. Useful phrases include desk drawers, a chest of drawers, open the drawers, and put clothes in the drawers. The plural form is natural when several compartments are involved. In some British or old-fashioned contexts, drawers can mean undergarments, so nearby words about clothing or dressing may signal that secondary sense.
例文
She neatly folded her clothes and placed them in the drawers.
彼女は服をきれいにたたんで引き出しにしまいました。
The old desk had three drawers on the left side and two on the right.
その古い机は左側に3つ、右側に2つの引き出しがありました。
I searched through all the drawers but couldn't find the key anywhere.
すべての引き出しを探しましたが、どこにも鍵が見つかりませんでした。
drawers の類義語・関連語
drawers の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 dragan（引く）から派生した drawer（引く物）の複数形。draw（引く）+ -er（道具・動作主）という構成で、「引いて開ける収納」が原義。同根語に draw（描く・引く）、withdrawal（引き出し・撤退）がある。
Drawers is the plural of drawer. Drawer developed from draw, whose ancestry includes Old English dragan, “to pull or drag,” together with the agent or instrument suffix -er. A furniture drawer was therefore understood as something drawn or pulled out. The plural is formed regularly by adding -s. The clothing sense arose because such garments were drawn on over the legs. Words such as withdraw and withdrawal preserve the broader idea of pulling back or away.
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