At first he thought he'd write four to eight scripts before showing them to anybody; the total mushroomed to thirteen.
(最初、誰にも見せないうちに、彼は4から8つの脚本を書くつもりだった。--合計は13本に膨れあがったが。)
60年代の米コメディドラマ「The Dick Van Dyke Show」のファンブック『The Dick Van Dyke Show』より。番組のプロデューサーであり、構成作家のカール・ライナーが、いかにしてこのヒットシリーズを生み出していったかの過程を説明する文章で。
- おもしろ単語。mushroomには動詞で「急激に成長する/膨れあがる」という意味が(to grow and develop very quickly/to increase or develop very quickly )。ふえ〜。おもしろ〜。
- Environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s.
- New housing developments mushroomed on the edge of town.
- The grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside.(grenade:手榴弾)
- The population has mushroomed over the past 10 years.
- The town has mushroomed in population over the past 10 years.
- Interest in local history is suddenly mushrooming.
- Her hobby mushroomed into a thriving business. ※thriving:繁盛している
- 以前似たようなおもしろ単語に「snowball=雪だるま式に増える」というのも見たことがある。(if a plan, problem, business etc snowballs, it grows bigger at a faster and faster rate/to increase, grow, etc., at a faster and faster rate )
- The campaign was snowballing.
- Interest in the sport is snowballing.
- Problems snowball when early trouble signs are ignored.
- What started as a small annual concert has snowballed into a full-fledged music festival. ※full-fledged:十分に発達(進展)した
- consumers dealing with snowballing debt