hoarding
溜め込む
解説 Definition
hoarding は hoard（溜め込む、買いだめする）の現在分詞・動名詞です。必要以上に物やお金などを集めて保管する行為を表し、しばしば否定的な響きがあります。
Hoarding is the act of collecting and keeping excessive quantities of possessions, money, food, or supplies, often because a person is unwilling to use or discard them. The word commonly carries a negative sense.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 hoard に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、e の脱落や子音の重複はありません。hoard food、hoard money、hoard supplies のように、必要以上の物を手放さず蓄える場面と結び付けます。単なる saving より、隠すように大量に溜め込み、他人の不足を招くこともある否定的な響きが強い語です。
Start with the base verb hoard and add -ing: hoard becomes hoarding, with no letter dropped or consonant doubled. Imagine cupboards filled with far more food or supplies than one person needs. Useful combinations include hoarding water, hoarding money, and hoarding old documents. Unlike ordinary saving, hoarding suggests keeping an excessive amount and being reluctant to use, share, or throw it away. It can describe an action in progress, as in people are hoarding supplies, or function as a noun for the behavior itself. The word often implies harmful clutter or shortages for others.
例文
Some people started hoarding water before the storm.
嵐の前に水を買いだめし始めた人もいました。
Hoarding old documents made the office hard to organize.
古い書類を溜め込んだため、事務所の整理が難しくなりました。
The report warned that hoarding supplies could make shortages worse.
その報告書は、物資の買いだめが不足を悪化させる可能性があると警告しました。
hoarding の類義語・関連語
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hoarding の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語の「hord（隠された財宝）」に行為を示す接尾辞「-ing」が結合した。元々「覆い隠して守る」概念から派生し、物を隠して大切に蓄える行為が転じて、現代の「溜め込む」の意味になった。同じ語根を持つ関連語に「hoard」がある。
Hoarding consists of hoard plus the participial and gerund suffix -ing. Hoard comes from Old English hord, meaning a hidden stock of treasure or valuable objects, and has Germanic relatives. The noun first referred to accumulated valuables, especially those concealed for protection. The verb consequently developed the sense of collecting and secretly or excessively keeping things, from which the modern noun hoarding is formed.
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