ROLLER COASTER
ジェットコースター

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For Life
2002.07.29

It's great to see you! We're back at the amusement park for this midsummer edition of WordMaster, and today we do honor to the king of amusement park rides.

No one shorter than 120 centimeters allowed on this ride!

Explanation

  • A roller coaster is a short, raised railway with fast, sharp turns and steep ups and downs.

    Be careful:
    The phrase "jet coaster" [like the Japanese ジェットコースター] is Japanese English and is NOT used to mean roller coaster .
  • roller coaster 　は、急カーブや急勾配のついた高架のレールを高速で走る乗り物、つまりジェットコースターのことです。

    注意：
    jet coaster（ジェットコースター）は和製英語で、 roller coaster 　の意味では使われません。

examples

  1. I'm too scared to ride the roller coaster .
  2. I heard that the roller coaster here reaches speeds of over 80 kilometers per hour.

Wow! Now THAT was thrilling ... but I think I'm going to be sick now...