errand
US /ˈɛrənd/
・UK /ˈerənd/
B2 中上級
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可算/不可算)用事
Bill will be late today,as he will be running an errand before going to work.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可算/不可算)使い
I have to run some errands this afternoon.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可算/不可算)使命
She was on an errand of mercy.
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日常英会話：街中編 [上級語彙レッスン] (Daily Life English: Around Town [Advanced Vocabulary Lesson])
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- All right, are you ready to get started with our first errand?
よし、最初の用事を始める準備はいいか？
- The first errand that we're going to run is dropping off some books that my kids no longer read in our neighborhood's free book box.
最初の用事は、子供たちが読まなくなった本を近所の無料図書箱に投函することだ。
時間にお金を使うと幸せになれる：BBCニュースレビュー (Money spent on time makes you happy: BBC News Review)
- We do. You can have an errand if you've got to go and do something and bring something or just a job. A chore, a household chore is a household job.
そうだね。用事があれば、何かをしに行ったり、何かを持ってきたりすることもできるし、ただの仕事でもいい。家事は家事の仕事です。
- You can have an errand if you've got to go and do something and bring something, or just a job.
あなたは文法の先生ですね。
モダン・ファミリー：クレアが家族にFaceTimeでハリーの結婚を確認 (The Best Modern Family Episode | Claire FaceTimes the Family To Find Out if Haley Got Married)
- Hi, Jay. Claire was just about to go run an errand.
やあ、ジェイ。クレアはちょうど用事を済ませに行くところだった。
- Claire was just about to go run an errand.
シークレット・ビリオネア：チャック・フィーニーの物語 (Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story)
- I met Chuck one night at PJ Clark's, uh, sat him down and said, "I was considering putting together a group to go to Northern Ireland to become involved and try and bring an American dimension to solving the Irish issue." And Chuck instantly said, "Yes, I want to do it," uh, which was remarkable given who he was and given the fact that, you know, this was really a kind of a fool's errand in many people's eyes.
そして
- fact that this was really kind of a fool's errand in many people’s eyes.
当時、北アイルランドの暴力に解決策は見えず、
第2部 - シャーロット・ブロンテ著 ジェーン・エア オーディオブック (第7章～第11章) (Part 2 - Jane Eyre Audiobook by Charlotte Bronte (Chs 07-11))
- My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes: so I discharged that business first: and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemakers to the post office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horned spectacles on her nose, and
棺に飾るためのハーブや花を数枝提供する以外は、
- My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I
この時の私の表向きの用件は、靴一足の採寸をしてもらうことだった。だから私は
第5部 - ジェーン・エア オーディオブック チャールズ・ブロンテ (第21-24章) (Part 5 - Jane Eyre Audiobook by Charlotte Bronte (Chs 21-24))
- my errand, however, was one I could not defer, so I approached the master where he stood at Miss Ingram's side.
拒否：私はあなたが降りる前に休暇を尋ねなければならないだろうと仮定します"？
- It required some courage to disturb so interesting a party; my errand, however,
私の用事、しかし、、それはとても面白いパーティーを邪魔するために、いくつかの勇気を必要と
パート2 - 赤毛のアンオーディオブック ルーシー・モード・モンゴメリ作 (第11-18章) (Part 2 - Anne of Green Gables Audiobook by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Chs 11-18))
- Lin's on an errand.
「マリラ、ダイアナが大好き。
- Monday afternoon Marilla sent her down to Mrs. Lynde's on an errand.
月曜日の午後、マリラは彼女を使いにリンデ夫人のところへ行かせた。
第6部 - シャーロック・ホームズの冒険 オーディオブック サー・アーサー・コナン・ドイル (冒険11-12) (Part 6 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 11-12))
- If you could send her into the cellar on some errand,
あなたは何の危険性を予見か？"ホームズは重々しく首を横に振った。
- If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon
あなたには、いくつかの使いに地下室に彼女を送信して、Enterキーを開き直ることができれば