scurrying
急いでいる
解説 Definition
scurrying は scurry（小走りで急ぐ、あわただしく動く）の現在分詞・動名詞です。「急いで動いていること」や「あわただしく走り回ること」を表し、小さな動きや忙しそうな様子によく使われます。
Scurrying is rapid, hurried movement made with short, quick steps, often suggesting nervousness, busyness, or small creatures moving about. It is the gerund or present-participle form of scurry and can name the activity itself.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
scurrying は scurry「小走りであわただしく動く」の -ing 形。語末の y はそのままで -ing を加える。名詞なら「ちょこちょこと急いで動き回ること」、現在分詞なら「急いで動き回っている」。単なる running より、小刻みで忙しない動きを表し、feet、mice、backstage activity などと結び付けて覚える。
Begin with scurry, meaning to move quickly with short, hurried steps. Add -ing without changing the final y: scurrying. As a noun, it names the activity, as in “the scurrying of feet”; as a participle, it describes someone or something moving that way. Picture mice darting across a floor, kitchen workers rushing between tasks, or performers moving busily backstage. Compared with running, scurrying suggests smaller, quicker, less orderly movements and often creates an impression of nervous activity. The older expression hurry-scurry provides a useful, historically grounded connection with haste and confusion.
例文
I heard the scurrying of feet in the hallway.
廊下で足音があわただしく動き回るのが聞こえました。
The scurrying in the kitchen stopped when the chef arrived.
シェフが到着すると、厨房のあわただしい動きは止まりました。
There was constant scurrying backstage before the performance began.
公演が始まる前、舞台裏では絶えず人が急いで動き回っていました。
scurrying の類義語・関連語
scurrying の語源・成り立ち Etymology
scurry の進行形・名詞化で、語源は確定しませんが、18世紀の hurry-scurry「大あわて」が縮まった語とされます。hurry や hurried と近い感触をもち、「ちょこちょこ慌ただしく動く」感じがそのまま scurrying の急ぎ足の動きを表します。
Scurrying is the -ing form of scurry. The precise origin of scurry is uncertain, but it is generally associated with the older expression hurry-scurry, which conveyed confused haste and bustling movement. Scurry emerged in English in the eighteenth century and developed the specific sense of moving rapidly with short, quick steps. The suffix -ing allows the form to function either as a participle in a verb phrase or as a noun naming the movement.
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