Slogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /slɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /slɑɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

名詞

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

1. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
2. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
   • 1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times‎:

     It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.

   • 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport‎:

     England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.

   • 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times‎:

     There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.

   • 2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, quoting William Alsup and Dario Amodei, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said”, in Business Insider‎:

     Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”

3. (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
4. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

動詞

slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)

1. (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk

   • 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:

     The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[5]

     A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

2. (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
3. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

派生語

アナグラム

• -logs, Glos, Glos., logs

動詞

slōg

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of slēan