tar
タール
解説 Definition
tar は、黒く粘り気のある油状の物質で、道路舗装や防水などに使われる「タール」を意味します。日本語の「タール」とほぼ同じですが、英語では石炭や木材などから得られる物質を指す一般名詞として使われます。
A thick, dark, sticky substance produced from materials such as coal or wood. It is used in applications including road treatment, waterproofing, and sealing, and it can adhere strongly to surfaces such as shoes.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
日本語の「タール」とほぼ同じで、道路や屋根に使う黒く粘る物質を思い浮かべます。fresh tar、tar sticks to shoes、seal a roof with tar のように、舗装・付着・防水の場面と結び付けると実用的です。asphalt は道路舗装材全般を指し、tar と同一とは限りません。
Picture the black, sticky material on a newly treated road or being spread over a roof to keep water out. Useful combinations include fresh tar, coal tar, tar sticking to shoes, and seal something with tar. These scenes preserve the practical meaning of the Japanese loanword タール. Do not automatically treat tar and asphalt as identical: asphalt is a different bituminous material and is now more common in road paving, although everyday descriptions sometimes blur the distinction. The key memory image is a dark substance that both coats and sticks.
例文
The road was covered with fresh tar.
その道路は新しいタールで覆われていました。
Tar stuck to the bottom of my shoes.
タールが靴底にくっつきました。
Workers used tar to seal the small cracks in the roof.
作業員たちは屋根の小さなひびをふさぐためにタールを使いました。
tar の類義語・関連語
tar の語源・成り立ち Etymology
tarは中英語を経て古英語teoru「樹木のやに・樹脂」にさかのぼり、さらにゲルマン祖語を通じて「木・樹」を表す印欧祖語系につながります。もとは木から出る粘る物質なので、黒くべたつくタールの意味に納得できます。関連語はtreeです。
Tar comes through Middle English from Old English teoru, a word for tar or resinous material obtained from trees. It belongs to an old Germanic group of words associated with trees and substances derived from wood, and it has been historically connected with the ancestry of tree. The earliest material was commonly produced from wood; the term was later also applied to similar dark products obtained from coal and other organic materials.
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