English Collection

日頃目に付いた覚えたい英単語、慣用句などの表現についてのメモです。

home ec

2020年07月16日 | 英単語
Banana Yoshimotoの "Kitchen" を読んでいます。
Dividing ingredients into bowls, bringing giant vats of water to a boil, measuring--doing routine work until three o'clock suited me fine. This sunny, large-windowed room, those big tables lined up in front of the ovens, the broilers and burners, reminded me of the home-ec rooms at school.
"home-ec" は授業の種類の様ですが何でしょう?
・Oxford English Dictionary: short for home economics; Cooking and other aspects of household management, especially as taught at school.: I had all the usual classes, plus physical education and home economics.

・Collins Dictionary: Home economics is a school subject dealing with how to run a house well and efficiently.: Maybe that's why I took home economics at school.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: at school, the study of cooking, sewing, and subjects relating to the management of a home: They also prefer religious education, home economics and sports studies.
コメント (1)
  • X
  • Facebookでシェアする
  • はてなブックマークに追加する
  • LINEでシェアする