English Dictionary

snakes and ladders

名詞

不可算名詞 比喩的用法

A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.

日本語の意味

子供向けの運任せのボードゲーム。インド起源で、数字が書かれた盤上で遊び、目的はゴールに到達することであり、途中で梯子が進行を助け、蛇が後退を強いる役割を果たす。

We spent the rainy afternoon playing snakes and ladders, cheering whenever a ladder boosted us and groaning when a snake sent us backward.

私たちは雨の午後を、マス目に沿って進んでゴールを目指すインド発祥の子供向けの運任せのボードゲーム（はしごが進行を助け、蛇が妨げる）をして過ごし、はしごで上がるたびに歓声を上げ、蛇に当たって後退するたびにうめきました。

意味（1）

A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.

意味（2）

(figuratively) any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random

Teachers, senior teachers, and principal teachers would have built-in status and the scales would offer well-defined career prospects instead of the ambiguous and often misleading snakes-and-ladders situation which at present exists.