retreating
後退する
解説 Definition
retreating は retreat（後退する、退く）の現在分詞・動名詞です。軍隊や人が後ろへ下がる場合のほか、水や氷などが引いていく様子にも使われます。
Retreating is the present participle or gerund of retreat. It describes moving backward or away from a place, danger, or opposing force, and can also describe natural features such as tides, coastlines, or glaciers that are receding.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
retreating は retreat に -ing をそのまま付けた形で、発音は /rɪˈtriːtɪŋ/ です。兵士が from the hill と後退する場面だけでなく、retreating tide や retreating glacier のように潮・氷河が引く様子にも使います。単なる backward movement より「ある場所から離れて退く」という retreat の方向性を from と結び付けて覚えましょう。
Retreating is retreat plus -ing, with no spelling change, and is pronounced /rɪˈtriːtɪŋ/. Picture movement away from a position: soldiers may be retreating from a hill, a tide may be retreating from the shore, and a glacier may be retreating as it loses ice. The preposition from often identifies the place being left. The same form can be part of a continuous verb or modify a noun, as in a retreating glacier. Unlike general backward movement, retreating usually implies giving up, leaving, or losing a former position, whether the subject is human or natural.
例文
The soldiers were retreating from the hill.
兵士たちは丘から後退していました。
The tide was retreating slowly.
潮がゆっくりと引いていました。
The hikers saw the retreating glacier from a safe distance.
ハイカーたちは後退する氷河を安全な距離から見ました。
retreating の類義語・関連語
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retreating の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語「retrahere（引き戻す）」が古フランス語「retrere」を経て英語に。re-（後ろへ）+trahere（引く）の構成で、文字通り「引き下がる」意味。関連語：retract（撤回する）、extract（引き出す）、attract（引きつける）。
Retreating is formed from retreat and -ing. Retreat entered English through Old French and is ultimately connected with Latin retrahere, “to draw back,” from re-, “back,” and trahere, “to draw or pull.” The same Latin verb lies behind words such as retract and extract. The literal idea of being drawn backward developed into the military sense of withdrawing and then into broader uses for people, water, ice, and other things moving away from a former position.
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