きりだす

[切り出す] ①［切って運び出す］

quarry

|他|(石)を切り出す， 採石する(out).

②［話を始める］

¶→結婚話を切り出す

切り出す
to quarry
to cut (timber)
to cut and carry off
to begin to talk
to break the ice
to broach
to bring down

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きりだす【切り出す】

①［切って運び出す］

quarry

|他|(石)を切り出す， 採石する(out).

②［話を始める］

¶ → 結婚話を切り出す

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きりだす【切り出す】

1 〔木材を〕 log 《timber》; get 《timber》 out 《of…》; 〔石材を〕 quarry.

●木曽の山中から木材を切り出す log [bring down] timber from the Kiso mountains.

2 【電算】 〔画像を〕 cut out 《a figure》.

●動画を分解して静止画を切り出す capture [grab] a frame from a video (file); import a frame of a video as a still image.

3 〔言い出す〕 begin to talk [start talking] 《about the main subject, about one's main purpose》; break the ice; broach [bring up] 《a matter》.

●ちょっと切り出しにくい問題だ. That's a very delicate matter.

・その話を切り出すのに困った. I didn't know how to broach [bring up] the matter.

・彼のほうから切り出した. He broached [brought up] the subject himself.

・どんな話を切り出すかと待っている間も胸がどきどきした. My heart thumped as I waited to see what he would bring up.