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blustery

2013年05月14日 | 英語学習
春は突風がよく吹きます。 先日の突風でせっかく植えたばかりのトマトとキュウリの苗が傷んでしまいました。この春の突風を表すのにピッタリの単語を見かけました。
For our March meeting, the conference room at Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen was full to bursting, and that on a day when the blustery March winds threatened to close down railway lines and keep people at home.
"blustery" を辞書で引きます。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: with strong winds: a blustery day: blustery weather
・Vocabulary.com: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts: “a cold blustery day”: The setting was appropriately apocalyptic, morning sun yielding to heavy cloud cover and a blustery wind.
・Wiktionary: Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind"
辞書を見ると "bluster" が動詞・名詞としてあることが分かりました。 Vocabulary.comに次ぎの説明があります。
If you tell the captain of the basketball team that you're going to beat him at a game of hoops even though you've never played, you're speaking with a lot of bluster or false confidence and bravado.
Bluster can also mean a strong wind. On a blustery day, you'll see trees blowing and people holding onto their hats. When someone full of bluster is talking about how they can do something that you think they can't, they're blowing a lot of hot air in your direction. And coincidently, another name for that type of person is a blowhard.
この "bluster" は北朝鮮の若いリーダーを思い起こさせます。
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