late Old English, from Latin Venus (plural veneres), in ancient Roman mythology, the goddess of beauty and love, especially sensual love, from venus "love, sexual desire; loveliness, beauty, charm; a beloved object," from PIE root *wen- (1) "to strive after, wish, desire" (cognates: Sanskrit veti "follows after," vanas- "desire," vanati "desires, loves, wins;" Avestan vanaiti "he wishes, is victorious," vayeiti "hunts;" Lithuanian veju "to hunt, pursue;" Old Church Slavonic voji "warrior;" Old English wat "hunting," wynn "joy," wunian "to dwell," wenian "to accustom, train, wean," wyscan "to wish;" Old Norse veier "chase, hunting, fishing"). Applied by the Romans to Greek Aphrodite, Egyptian Hathor, etc.
Applied in English to any beautiful, attractive woman by 1570s. As the name of the most brilliant planet from late 13c., from this sense in Latin (Old English called it morgensteorra and ?fensteorra). The venus fly-trap (Dion?a muscipula) was discovered 1760 by Gov. Arthur Dobbs in North Carolina and description sent to Collinson in England. The Central Atlantic Coast Algonquian name for the plant, /titipiwitshik/, yielded regional American English tippity wichity.
例文
1. Venus ，the Sun and Earth all moved into line.
金星、太陽、地球は一直線上にある。
2.a marble sculpture of Venus
ヴィーナスの大理石彫刻
3. Venus is of the same size as Earth.
金星は地球とあまり差がない。
4. Venus was a goddess worshiped by the Romans.
ヴィーナスはローマ人が崇拝する女神である。
5.On Wednesday，Anadarko announced positive results from the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone.