English Dictionary

drive home

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To push something into position completely by force. / (figuratively, transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.

日本語の意味

（何かを）完全に押し込む、固定する / （比喩的に）実例などで力強く主張する、強調する

Please drive home the stake until it is flush with the ground.

杭を地面にぴったり合うまで完全に打ち込んでください。

意味（1）

(transitive) To push something into position completely by force.

He grunted as he drove each nail home.

意味（2）

(figuratively, transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.

She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, home.

He decided not to drive home right away.

drives home （ present singular third-person ）

driving home （ participle present ）

drove home （ past ）

driven home （ participle past ）