英語でフィギュアスケートのジャンプをする時の表現について学びます。
3回転アクセルを飛んだ！などの表現
- land （ジャンプ）を降りる
日本語でも、飛んだというより「降りた」の表現をよく使います。着地は、landing です。
✺ Midori Ito — Japan’s first world champion (1989) and the silver medalist at the 1992 Albertville Olympics. Most significantly, the Nagoya native was the first woman to land a triple axel and a triple/triple combination in international competition.
Time for a Japan Figure Skating Hall of Fame(the japan times)
- take off （ジャンプを）踏み切る
名詞形でtakeoff は踏切。
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land（降りる）以外のジャンプの表現
- execute （ジャンプを）実行する、行う
landとともに、executeがよく使われます。
Nathan Chen is the first skater in history to cleanly execute five quadruple jumps in a free skate.（NBC Olympics）
- attempt（ジャンプを）挑戦する
Mirai Nagasu had no room for error when she attempted a triple axel in the women's free skate portion of the team event and she stuck the landing. （NBC Olympics）
- perform （ジャンプを）演じる、披露する
演じる、というと少し大げさに聞こえますが、do とほぼ同じような意味。演技は、performance といいますね。
Axel Paulsen (NOR) was the first skater to perform the jump named after him, in 1882. He performed this feat wearing speed skates rather than figure skates. (wikipedia/Axel jump)
- produce （ジャンプを）生み出す、繰り出す
- hit （ジャンプを）決める
Hanyu produced three clean quadruple jumps in his Japanese-themed routine ‘Seimei’, a movie soundtrack, but stumbled on a fourth, a quad toeloop. The two-time World Champion also hit four clean triples including a triple Axel and three-level four spins. (ISU)
ジャンプの入り方の表現
- an unusual entry （予想外の入り）
An unusual entry into this combination cost him flow and power. (NYtimes)
- a difficult entry （難しい入り）
He took a risk by making a difficult entry into the jump.(NYtimes)
- opening ... 最初の（ジャンプ）
一番初めに飛ぶジャンプに形容されます。
Skating to ‘Turandot’, Uno fell on his opening quad loop, but recovered to land a quad flip and two quadruple toeloops as well as six triples. (ISU)
