grubs
意味一覧 (2件)
食べ物
解説 Definition
grubs はくだけた言い方で、食事や食べ物を指す名詞です。家庭や友人同士の会話で「何か食べるもの」「簡単な食事」という軽いニュアンスで使われ、改まった場面では food や meal が普通です。
Grubs is a casual, informal noun that means food or something to eat. People often use it in friendly conversation when they want a simple meal or a quick bite, not in formal situations. It has a relaxed feeling, so words like food or meal are more common in careful or polite English.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
grubs は、より基本形の grub「食べ物、軽食」を複数っぽく見せたくだけた語として押さえると覚えやすい。get some grub「何か食べる」、grab some grub「軽く食べる」のように、友人同士の会話で空腹を満たす食べ物を指す場面が中心。正式な menu や cuisine ではなく、food をラフに言った感じ。別エントリの「幼虫」と同じ形なので、文脈が soil や beetle なら虫、eat や hungry なら食べ物と切り分ける。
Think of grubs as the casual plural form of grub, meaning food or a quick meal. You often hear it in expressions like get some grub or grab some grub when friends are talking about eating. It sounds much more relaxed than menu or cuisine. Be careful with context: if the sentence is about soil or beetles, grub means an insect, but if it is about being hungry or eating, it means food.
例文
Let's get some grubs before the movie starts.
映画が始まる前に何か食べ物を食べよう。
After the long hike, we were all looking for hot grubs and a place to sit.
長いハイキングのあと、みんな温かい食べ物と座れる場所を探していた。
The shop stays open late, so students can grab cheap grubs after class.
その店は遅くまで開いているので、学生は授業後に安い食べ物をさっと買える。
幼虫
(意味 2)解説 Definition
甲虫などの昆虫の幼虫で、土の中に住む白くて太い虫。
Grubs are the young, soft-bodied form of some insects, especially beetles, before they become adults. They usually live in soil, wood, or plants and feed there. The word is most often used in biology, gardening, and farming contexts.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
grubs の「幼虫」は、自然・園芸・農業の文脈で出る専門寄りの意味として覚える。単数形 grub に -s が付いた複数形なので、土の中に何匹もいる白くて太い甲虫の幼虫を思い浮かべるとよい。soil, roots, beetle, lawn, crops などと一緒に出たら食害を起こす虫の話になりやすい。grubs には「食べ物」というくだけた別義もあるが、この意味では食卓ではなく土・根・昆虫が手がかりになる。
First remember the singular form `grub`; `grubs` is just the plural. Think of gardening words like `soil`, `roots`, and `beetles`, because grubs are often talked about in that context. To fix it in memory, picture several thick white insect young living under the ground.
例文
The gardener found several grubs in the soil while planting the rose bushes.
庭師はバラを植えている最中に、土の中からいくつかの幼虫を見つけた。
Birds often dig through the lawn searching for grubs to eat.
鳥はよく芝生を掘り返して食べる幼虫を探す。
The beetle grubs had damaged the roots of the crops across the entire field.
甲虫の幼虫が畑全体の作物の根を傷めていた。
grubs の語源・成り立ち Etymology
grubs は grub の複数形。grub は中英語 grubben「掘る」に由来し、土を掘る虫の意味から、のちに口語で「食べ物」を指す用法も広がった。
Grubs is the plural form of grub. Grub comes from Middle English grubben, meaning "to dig." It first related to creatures that dig in the soil, and later an informal meaning of "food" developed.
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