speckle
意味一覧 (2件)
斑点
解説 Definition
一つひとつは小さいが、表面に見える色付きの点や斑。鳥の羽、卵の殻、石、絵画、ほこりの粒など、地の色と違う細かな印を指す名詞です。多くは speckles の複数形で、点が散在している見た目を表します。
A speckle is a very small spot or mark, often one of many on a surface. It is commonly used when talking about color patterns, dirt, light, or tiny differences you can see.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
名詞の speckle は、模様を作る「小さな点そのもの」に意識を置くと覚えやすいです。白い卵の殻に茶色い粒がいくつもある、その一粒一粒が speckle。単なる記号の点より自然物や質感のある表面に出る斑点に向きます。複数形 speckles で使うと、羽や布に散った細かな点の集合までまとめて描写できます。
Start with speck, a very small spot. Speckle is what you get when many tiny specks appear across a surface, not just one dot. Think of collocations like speckled eggs or speckles of paint. It suggests a scattered pattern of little marks.
例文
The bird's wing had red speckles.
鳥の翼には赤い斑点があった。
The painting was decorated with gold speckles.
その絵画は金色の斑点で装飾されていた。
Speckles of dust floated in the sunlight.
ほこりの粒が日光の中を漂った。
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(意味 2)解説 Definition
表面に細かな点や色むらを散らして、まだら模様にする動詞。絵の具の飛沫が紙を、泥や雨粒が服を、日差しが床を点々と覆うように、原因となる物が主語にもなる。名詞の「斑点」から、その斑点を生じさせる動作へ広がった用法です。
To speckle something is to cover its surface with many small spots, marks, or patches of color so that it looks spotted or uneven. The subject can be a person who adds the marks, or a thing such as paint, mud, raindrops, or sunlight that scatters them naturally. It often describes a pattern spreading across a surface rather than making just one single dot.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
speckle を動詞で見るときは、「点を一個描く」よりも、細かい粒があちこちに散って表面の見え方を変える動きとして覚えると自然です。The wall was speckled with paint なら、壁全体に絵の具の小粒が飛んでいる感じ。freckles が肌に散るイメージと結びつけると、be speckled with ... の受け身表現も思い出しやすくなります。
When you learn speckle as a verb, do not imagine drawing one dot. Think of many tiny marks spreading across a surface and changing how it looks. In a sentence like The wall was speckled with paint, you can picture little drops all over the wall. It also helps to connect it with freckles, because be speckled with often describes small spots scattered over something.
例文
Small drops of paint speckled the wall.
小さな絵の具のしずくが壁に斑点をつけた。
Her boots were speckled with mud after the walk.
散歩のあと、彼女のブーツには泥の斑点がついていた。
Morning light speckled the wooden floor through the leaves.
朝の光が葉の間から差し込み、木の床に点々と模様をつけた。
speckle の語源・成り立ち Etymology
speckle は speck「小さな点・しみ」に反復・小型の響きを添える -le がついた語です。speck は中英語を経てゲルマン系語にさかのぼり、「細かな点が散る感じ」から斑点の意味になりました。関連語に speck、speckled があります。
Speckle comes from speck, meaning "small spot" or "tiny mark," with the ending -le that often gives a repeated or small-scale sense. Speck goes back through Middle English to Germanic roots for a tiny spot or stain. From that, speckle developed the meaning of a pattern of many small spots, and related words include speck and speckled.
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