English Dictionary

like

IPA（発音記号）

/laɪ̯k/

助詞

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Likely. / (colloquial, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler. / (colloquial) Indicating approximation or uncertainty.

日本語の意味

おそらく（可能性が高い、たぶん） / ためらいを埋める遅延表現（会話中の埋め草的な用法） / 大体、ざっと（概数や不確実な程度を示す）

He's, like, going to miss the train.

彼はおそらく電車に乗り遅れるだろう。

意味（1）

Likely.

“You'll try it, some day, like enough; but you'll get tired of the change pretty soon.” “Why?” “Well, I'll tell you. Now you've always been a sailor; did you ever try some other business?”

意味（2）

(colloquial, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler.

He was so angry, like.

意味（3）

(colloquial) Indicating approximation or uncertainty.

There were, like, twenty of them.

意味（4）

(colloquial, slang) Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.

I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”