FERRIS WHEEL / MERRY-GO-ROUND
観覧車/メリーゴーランド

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For Life
2002.07.30

Hi! We still have some tickets left, so how about going on a couple more rides with us? Here are two old-time favorites - elegant, slow-moving, beautiful machines. 

Take a seat next to someone special! 

Explanation

  • A Ferris wheel is an amusement park ride in the shape of a large upright wheel. Passengers sit in seats that hang freely from the outside of the wheel and remain upright as the wheel turns.

    A merry-go-round is an amusement park ride in which passengers sit on models of horses or other animals attached to a round platform that slowly moves around in circles - the animals moving up and down at the same time - as music plays.
  • Ferris wheel  (観覧車)は、遊園地にある乗り物のひとつで、大きな車輪が地上に立っているものです。車輪の外側に座席がぶら下がっていて、車輪が回っても席は真っ直ぐのままになっています。

    merry-go-round  (メリーゴーランド)も遊園地にある乗り物です。円形の台に取り付けた木馬や、他の動物などが、音楽に合わせてゆっくり回転します。回転すると同時に木馬などが上下します。

examples

  1. They have a Ferris wheel here that's over 20 stories high. 
  2. It's very romantic to be alone with someone at the top of the Ferris wheel.
  3. (a father to his daughter)
    a: Would you like to ride on the merry-go-round, sweetheart?
    b: Will you ride with me, Daddy?

It's been fun!