trucks
トラック
解説 Definition
trucks は truck（トラック）の複数形で、「複数のトラック」という意味です。荷物を運ぶ大型の車を指し、日常会話でも仕事や交通の話でよく使われます。
Trucks are large motor vehicles designed mainly to carry goods, equipment, or other loads by road. The word is the plural form of truck and refers to two or more such vehicles.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
trucks は truck「荷物を運ぶトラック」の規則的な複数形で、無声音 /k/ の後の s は /s/ と発音します。two trucks、delivery trucks、large trucks のように台数や用途・大きさと組み合わせましょう。日本語の「トラック競技」のトラックは英語では track なので、つづりと意味を混同しないことが重要です。
Trucks is the regular plural of truck. Since truck ends with the voiceless sound /k/, the plural s is pronounced /s/. Picture several large road vehicles carrying goods: two trucks near a store, delivery trucks used by a company, or large trucks unable to enter a narrow street. These combinations reinforce both the plural meaning and the typical purpose of the vehicles. Be careful with Japanese loanword usage: the English word for a running course is track, not truck. Truck specifically names the load-carrying vehicle here.
例文
Two trucks stopped near the store.
2台のトラックが店の近くに止まりました。
The company uses trucks for delivery.
その会社は配達にトラックを使っています。
Large trucks cannot enter this narrow street.
大きなトラックはこの狭い通りに入れません。
trucks の類義語・関連語
trucks の語源・成り立ち Etymology
trucks は truck の複数形で、truck はもと「小さな車輪つき台車」を指した語です。語源はラテン語 trochus、さらにギリシャ語 trokhos「車輪」にさかのぼるとされ、trucker や trucking と結びつけると、「荷を運ぶ車」の意味への広がりが見えてきます。
Trucks is the regular plural of truck. The vehicle sense of truck developed from an earlier word for a small wheel or wheeled platform used to carry heavy objects. That word is generally traced through forms associated with Latin trochus and Greek trokhos, “wheel” or “hoop.” As powered road transport developed, truck became the usual North American English term for a motor vehicle built to carry loads. Trucker and trucking were later formed from this noun.
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