VIP
['vi 'aɪ 'pi]
- abbr.非常に重要な人物; ビデオ?インターフェース?プロセッサー; 可変情報処理
英語の語源
- VIP (n.)
- also V.I.P., 1933, initialism (acronym) for very important person or personage; not common until after World War II.
At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world, that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]
例文
- 1. We 'll give her some VIP treatment and roll out the red carpet.
- 貴賓級の礼遇を与え、レッドカーペットを敷設する。
- 2.She waited in the VIP lounge.
- 彼女はVIPラウンジで待っていた。
- 3.to get the VIP treatment
- は貴賓待遇を受ける
- 4.He was a VIP ，but he had a frugal life.
- 彼は要人だが、生活は質素だ。
- 5. VIP usually means Very Important People，but here VIP means Very Important Pets！
- 実際、世界のどこかでペットは本物の VIP 待遇を受けている。
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