給油中
解説 Definition
refueling は refuel「燃料を補給する」の現在分詞・動名詞です。車や飛行機などが給油している最中の動作や、燃料補給の作業を表します。
The present participle or gerund of “refuel,” meaning the process or ongoing action of supplying a vehicle, aircraft, ship, or machine with fuel again. It can form a progressive verb phrase or function as a noun naming the fueling operation itself.
使い方 Usage
- is refueling は「給油中だ」、was refueling は「給油中だった」を表す進行形です。 Use is refueling for an ongoing action now and was refueling for an ongoing action in the past.
- during refueling「給油中に」では、refueling が給油作業を指す動名詞として使われます。 In during refueling, refueling is a gerund naming the fueling operation.
- 米式では refueling、英式では l を重ねた refuelling が一般的です。 Refueling is the usual American spelling; refuelling, with a doubled l, is usual in British English.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
re-「再び」＋ fuel「燃料」＋ -ing と分け、タンクに燃料を補充している途中を思い浮かべましょう。
Break refueling into re- meaning again, fuel, and -ing. Picture a vehicle's tank receiving more fuel and its fuel gauge rising.
例文
The truck is refueling at the station.
そのトラックはスタンドで給油中です。
Passengers waited while the plane was refueling.
飛行機が給油中の間、乗客は待っていました。
The crew checked the engine during refueling.
乗組員は給油中にエンジンを確認しました。
refueling の類義語・関連語
refueling の語源・成り立ち Etymology
接頭辞re-（再び）とラテン語focus（火床）由来のfuel（燃料）が結合し、「燃料を再び注ぎ足す」の意となります。接尾辞-ingは進行形を作り、「給油中」という継続動作を直接表現します。同語根の関連語には、物事の中心を指す「focus」や形容詞の「focal」が挙げられます。
“Refueling” is formed from “refuel” plus -ing. “Refuel” combines the prefix “re-,” meaning again, with “fuel,” a word that entered English through French and ultimately developed from Latin “focus,” meaning a hearth or fireplace. As “fuel” came to mean material supplying energy, “refuel” naturally acquired the sense of supplying fuel again. The American spelling usually has one l; British “refuelling” commonly has two.
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