splayed
広がった
解説 Definition
手足や物が外側に広がった状態。八の字に開いた様子。
Splayed means spread outward in different directions, often in a wide or awkward way. It is used for fingers, legs, branches, or other parts that are opened apart instead of kept together. The word often gives a visual sense of something flattened or loosely spread.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
splay は、spread よりも「先端が外向きに開く」感じで覚えると定着しやすいです。指を広げる、脚が八の字に開く、椅子の脚が外側に張り出す、のように“中心から先が離れる”場面で使われます。fingers splayed, legs splayed が頻出。単に物が広がるなら spread でもよいですが、splayed は形に注目する語。なお sprawled は「だらっと手足を投げ出して広がる」で、splayed とは似ていても力点が違います。
Connect `splayed` with parts opening outward from the center. `Fingers splayed` is a very common image, with the tips spread apart. It is more about shape than simple `spread`, so picture the ends pointing outward.
例文
The exhausted runner collapsed with his legs splayed out on the track.
疲れ切ったランナーは脚をトラックに広げて倒れ込んだ。
The cat lay on the windowsill with its paws splayed in the warm sunlight.
猫は暖かい日差しの中で前足を広げて窓辺に寝そべっていた。
Books and papers were splayed across the desk in a chaotic mess.
本や書類が机の上に散らばって広がっていた。
splayed の類義語・関連語
splayed の語源・成り立ち Etymology
splayed は splay の過去分詞で、splay は display の短縮形。古フランス語 desploier、さらにラテン語 dis-「離して」+ plicare「折る」に由来します。display や deploy と同根で、「折り目をほどいて広げる」感覚が外へ開いた形につながります。
Splayed is the past form of splay, which is thought to be a shortening of display. Display came through Old French from Latin parts meaning "apart" and "fold." The original idea was unfolding something outward, and that developed into the sense of spreading or opening wide. Display and deploy are related English words from the same root.
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