探査
解説 Definition
prospecting は prospect（鉱物などを探査する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。金や石油などの資源があるかを調べる行為を表します。
Prospecting is the activity or ongoing process of searching an area for valuable natural resources such as gold, other minerals, or oil. It often involves examining land, rocks, or geological data for signs of deposits.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
prospecting は prospect「鉱物などを探査する」に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、末尾の子音を重ねません。pro-「前方へ」と「見る」に由来する要素から、土地を見渡して資源の兆候を探す場面を連想しましょう。prospecting for gold、oil prospecting のように、対象は for で示すのが典型です。
Prospecting is prospect plus -ing, with no doubled consonant. Connect pro-, suggesting “forward,” with the historical root meaning “look”: a prospector looks ahead and examines the ground for signs of valuable resources. Learn the frequent pattern “prospecting for,” as in prospecting for gold, and the compound oil prospecting. In this entry the word concerns physical resource exploration, not the broader business use of prospecting for customers. The base verb prospect and the person noun prospector help form a clear family: prospectors go prospecting to find promising deposits.
例文
The team is prospecting for gold in the hills.
そのチームは丘陵地で金の探査をしています。
Prospecting in this area requires special permission.
この地域で探査を行うには特別な許可が必要です。
They spent several weeks prospecting along the river.
彼らは川沿いで数週間にわたって探査を行いました。
prospecting の類義語・関連語
類義語
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prospecting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の接頭辞「pro-（前へ）」と語根「specere（見る）」に由来し、「先を見通す」意味の名詞 prospect から派生しました。「前方を見て探し求める」姿から、鉱物などの探査を指すようになりました。関連語に inspect（内部を見る）、perspective（見通し）があります。
Prospect derives from Latin prospectus, “view or outlook,” from prospicere, “to look forward,” combining pro-, “forward,” and specere, “to look.” The English noun first concerned a view or expectation, while the verb later developed the sense of examining land for valuable mineral deposits. Prospecting is the -ing form of that verb and denotes the continuing activity or the activity considered as a whole.
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