Melissa
英 美 [mə'lɪsə]
英語の語源
- Melissa
- fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek (Ionic) melissa (Attic melitta) "honeybee," also "one of the priestesses of Delphi," from PIE *melit-ya, suffixed form of *melit- "honey" (cognates: Greek meli, Latin mel "honey; sweetness;" Albanian mjal' "honey;" Old Irish mil "honey," Irish milis "sweet;" Old English mildeaw "nectar," milisc "honeyed, sweet;" Old High German milsken "to sweeten;" Gothic milit "honey").
例文
- 1. Why should Melissa have to slog around the supermarket on hernen？
- なぜメリッサはスーパーの中を1人で苦労してうろうろしているのか？
- 2. Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade.
- メリッサはラムネを飲むようにキニーネ入りのジンをがぶ飲みしている。
- 3.You 've got to hand it to Melissa ，she certainly gets around.
- メリッサに感心せざるを得ない。彼女はどこへ行っても食べられる。
- 4. Melissa slid in beside Paula，and her husband sat opposite.
- メリッサはそっと入ってポーラのそばに座り、夫は向こうに座っていた。
- 5. Melissa was a tall,buxom blonde.
- メリッサは豊満な長身の金髪美女だ。
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