throw awayとは意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

throw away (三人称単数 現在形 throws away, 現在分詞 throwing away, 過去形 threw away, 過去分詞 thrown away)

1. (transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, または the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of.

   He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can.

   Don't throw the newspaper away, it goes in the recycle bin!

2. (transitive, figuratively) To waste, to squander.

   Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.

   The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.

   • 1975, Freddie Mercury, “Bohemian Rhapsody” (song), in Queen (band), A Night at the Opera (album):

     Mama, life has just begun. / But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

   • 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.

3. (米国用法 football, slang) To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
4. (idiomatic) To give lightly, in an offhand manner.
   • 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne.

派生語

• throw-away
• throw away the key

名詞

throw-away (複数形 throw-aways)

1. any printed material that need not be kept after being read
2. a flyer

形容詞

throw-away (not comparable)

1. Designed to be or having been thrown away.

   A throw-away carton

   A throw-away line

派生語

• throw-away society

関連する語

• throw away

形容詞

throwaway (not comparable)

1. Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.

   Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.

   • 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:

     More people means that more synthetic compounds and dangerous throwaway plastics are manufactured, many of which add to the growing toxification of the Earth.

2. Extemporaneous; off the cuff.

   The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.

3. Given in a casual manner, either deliberately or unconsciously, with apparent disregard for effect.
   • As the film opens, a martial-drum-dominated version of the "Star Wars" theme and the inevitable bottom-to-top print crawl inform us that the Clone Wars, a conflict that originated as a throwaway line in the original 1977 film... http://www.nysun.com/arts/star-wars-clone-wars-painted-in-the-stars/83922/
   • I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake: "You flew the wing-five over Leningrad, didn't you?" It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot. https://web.archive.org/web/20120125090151/http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html
   • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     In one throwaway visual gag, the towering filing cabinet behind his desk is shown to have no drawers at all, but several concealed mirrors instead.