rustle
ガサガサ音
解説 Definition
rustle は、葉や紙、布などがこすれてガサガサ音を立てるという意味です。日本語ではカタカナ語としては一般的ではなく、英語では音そのものだけでなく、その音を立てる動作も表します。
To rustle is to make a soft, light series of sounds as dry leaves, paper, or cloth move against one another. It can also mean to cause something to make this sound by moving or handling it.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
rustle は葉・紙・布などが触れ合う軽い「カサカサ、サラサラ」という音と、その音を立てる動作を表します。dry leaves rustle、paper rustles、curtains rustle のように、薄く軽い物を主語にする場面を思い浮かべましょう。大きく激しい物音を表す roar とは区別します。
Associate rustle with light materials rubbing together: dry leaves under shoes, paper moved in a quiet room, or curtains stirred by a breeze. The word can describe either what the material does, as in “leaves rustle,” or what a person does to it, as in “she rustled the papers.” Its sound is soft, dry, and repeated rather than loud or explosive. Keeping the common combinations rustling leaves, rustling paper, and rustling curtains in mind makes the verb easy to recognize and use.
例文
Dry leaves rustle under my shoes.
乾いた葉が私の靴の下でガサガサ音を立てます。
I heard paper rustle in the quiet room.
静かな部屋で紙がカサカサ鳴る音が聞こえました。
The curtains rustle softly when the window is open.
窓が開いていると、カーテンがやわらかくサラサラ音を立てます。
rustle の類義語・関連語
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rustle の語源・成り立ち Etymology
中英語 rustlen に由来し、擬音語（オノマトペ）として発達した。乾いた葉や紙が擦れ合う音を模した語。関連語: rush, hustle。「カサカサ・ガサガサ」という摩擦音そのものが語源で、転じて家畜をこっそり盗む意味も生まれた。
Rustle comes from Middle English rustlen and developed as an imitative word representing a repeated light scraping or brushing sound. Its form is comparable to other sound-symbolic English verbs ending in -le, which often suggest a repeated or continuing action. The later sense of secretly stealing livestock developed separately from the sound-related sense and is not the meaning used in these examples.
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