sunbakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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sunbake (三人称単数 現在形 sunbakes, 現在分詞 sunbaking, 過去形および過去分詞形 sunbaked)

1. To bake in the sun.
   • 2005, Gillian Mears, Here is the Heartflower, Frank Moorhouse (editor), The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 136,

     Oh, she wants to moan with pain, thinking of Richard lying down on the sunbaking rock, naked as well.

   • 2005, MaryLee Knowlton, Uzbekistan, page 103,

     Their pots also were made of sunbaked mud, unfired and unglazed, though sometimes richly engraved.

   • 2005 September, Grant Parsons, Cajun Coast, American Motorcyclist, page 29,

     We roll in just before sunset, after all the day-tourists have left, and the sunbaked collection of cabins, aging hotels, restaurants and oil depots has a strangely deserted feel that′s oddly appealing.

   • 2011, Sera L. Young, Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk, page 64,

     Larvae do not survive well in the clayey soils preferred by most geophagists, and if they do, they are generally killed by the sunbaking, air drying, and heating that many geophagists do to their soil prior to consumption (cf. chapter 1).

2. (Australia, New Zealand) To sunbathe.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 90:

     Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.

   • 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:

     'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'

   • 2003, Caroline Daley, Leisure and Pleasure, Auckland University Press, page 132,

     Ancient precedents were important in establishing the long, lost history of the benefits of sunbaking. Journalists noted that ‘The ancients′ had recognised the importance of sunlight as a cure for disease; now modern New Zealanders had to do the same.

   • 2006, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 249,

     It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking.

   • 2007, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 66,

     The boat carries only 14 passengers and makes a stop at Michaelmas Cay where you can get off the boat, sunbake on the cay, swim in the shallow waters, and snorkel off the beach.

   • 2009, Anna Goldsworthy, Piano Lessons, page 105,

     Inspired, I spent the summer holidays practising Chopin instead of sunbaking by Sophia′s pool.

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sunbake (複数形 sunbakes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A session of sunbathing.
   • 1937, Max Dupain, Dupain's Beaches

     It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it's been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.

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