surface

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɜːfɪs/

名詞

比喩的用法

The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. / The outside hull of a tangible object. / (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.

日本語の意味

平らな物体の外側、すなわち「表面」 / 対象物の外側、外皮、すなわち「外側」や「ハル」 / （比喩的に）外見や見た目、すなわち「外観」

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The surface of the table was covered in coffee stains.

Google翻訳 / DeepL翻訳

テーブルの表面はコーヒーのシミで覆われていた。

詳細

意味（1）

The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

Google翻訳 / DeepL翻訳

詳細

意味（2）

The outside hull of a tangible object.

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

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