skimming
スキミング
解説 Definition
skimming は skim（表面をすくう、ざっと読む）の現在分詞・動名詞です。水面や液体の表面をすくう動作、または文章を大まかに読む行為を表します。
Skimming is the present-participle or gerund form of skim. It can mean removing material from the surface of a liquid or reading a text quickly to identify its main ideas without examining every detail.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
skimming は skim に -ing を付けた形で、短母音の後の m を重ねて skimming、発音は /ˈskɪmɪŋ/ です。スープの表面だけをすくう動きと、記事の表面をなぞるように要点だけ読む動きを一つの像で覚えましょう。skimming the soup/article のように使い、精読する reading carefully と区別します。
Start with skim and add -ing. Since skim has a short stressed vowel followed by one final consonant, the m is doubled: skim becomes skimming, pronounced /ˈskɪmɪŋ/. Keep one central image: touching only the surface. A cook may be skimming foam from soup, while a reader may be skimming an article for its main points. In both cases, attention stays near the top rather than going deeply through everything. Contrast skimming a report with reading it carefully word by word.
例文
She is skimming the soup with a spoon.
彼女はスプーンでスープの表面をすくっています。
He was skimming the article before the meeting.
彼は会議の前にその記事にざっと目を通していました。
Skimming the report helped her find the main points quickly.
レポートをざっと読むことで、彼女は要点をすばやく見つけられました。
skimming の類義語・関連語
skimming の語源・成り立ち Etymology
skimming は skim＋-ing で、skim は古フランス語 escumer「泡・上澄みをすくい取る」に由来するとされます。もとは表面だけをさっと取る動きなので、『上だけなでる』『表面だけ抜き取る』という意味が生まれ、カード情報を抜くスキミングにもつながります。関連語は scum, skimmer。
Skimming is formed from skim plus -ing, with the final m doubled according to the usual spelling rule. Skim is generally traced through Old French escumer, meaning “to remove foam or scum,” from a Germanic source related to scum. The original physical idea was taking something from a liquid’s surface. That surface-level motion later produced the familiar reading sense of moving quickly over a text.
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