深い切り傷
解説 Definition
鋭い物で切られてできた傷や裂け目のことで、特に大きく深い切り傷を指します。人や物に付いた場合もあり、出血を伴ったり素材が裂けたりします。切断面がはっきりしていて、治療や補修が必要になる場合が多いです。
A gash is a long, deep cut in skin, cloth, or another surface. It usually suggests more serious damage than a small cut or scratch. The word can also be used for similar deep openings in objects or land.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
cut や scratch よりずっと深く、slash に近い「ざっくり大きく切れて開いた傷」を思い浮かべると定着します。news では a deep gash in his arm, a gash on the forehead のように体の部位とよく結びつき、布やタイヤの裂け目にも使えます。wound はけが全般、scar は治った跡、gash は今まさにぱっくり開いた深い切り傷。gashed が「深く切られた」、gash は名詞にも動詞にもなると押さえると混同しにくいです。
Think of something deeper and wider than a simple `cut` or `scratch`. A `gash` feels more like a long, open tear, and it is often used with body parts: `a gash in his arm`, `a gash on the forehead`. It can be both a noun and a verb, which helps it appear often in news writing.
例文
The accident left a gash on his forehead that required stitches.
その事故で額に縫合が必要な深い切り傷が残った。
The fallen tree created a large gash in the roof of the house.
倒れた木は家の屋根に大きな裂け目を作った。
She bandaged the gash on her knee after falling off her bicycle.
彼女は自転車から落ちた後、膝の切り傷に包帯を巻いた。
gash の類義語・関連語
派生語
gash の語源・成り立ち Etymology
gash は中英語を経てノルマン系フランス語 garser、さらにギリシャ語 kharassein「刻む」にさかのぼります。character や characteristic と同根で、ただの傷でなく深く刻み込まれた切れ目だと考えると意味がつかめます。
Gash came into English through Middle English, probably from Norman French garser, and ultimately from a Greek root meaning "to cut" or "to scratch." That same deep root appears in English words like character and characteristic, which originally had the idea of something marked or engraved. So gash has always carried the sense of a deep cut that seems carved into the surface.
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