achieveの意味・使い方・発音

achieve

英 [ə'tʃiːv] 美 [ə'tʃiv]

達成

接頭辞a-はad-と同じ、行く。接頭辞a-はchief, headと同じで、語源のcap, headに由来する。頭に来る、到達する。

achieve: achieve: [14] Achieve is related to chief. It comes from Old French achever ‘bring to an end’, or literally ‘bring to a head’, which was based on the phrase a chief ‘to a head’ (chief derives ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’). The heraldic meaning of achievement, ‘coat of arms’, comes from the notion that the escutcheon was granted as a reward for a particular achievement. Over the centuries it has evolved an alternative form, hatchment [16].
=> chief, hatchment
achieve (v.): early 14c., from Old French achever (12c.) "to finish, accomplish, complete," from phrase à chef (venir) "at an end, finished," or Vulgar Latin *accapare, from Late Latin ad caput (venire); both the French and Late Latin phrases meaning literally "to come to a head," from stem of Latin caput "head" (see capitulum).
The Lat. caput, towards the end of the Empire, and in Merov[ingian] times, took the sense of an end, whence the phrase ad caput venire, in the sense of to come to an end .... Venire ad caput naturally produced the Fr. phrase venir à chef = venir à bout. ... From this chief, O.Fr. form of chef (q.v.) in sense of term, end, comes the Fr. compd. achever = venir à chef, to end, finish. [Auguste Brachet, "An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, Oxford, 1878]
Related: Achieved; achieving.

1. I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.: 私はマッキオンに解脱を求めるために再凝集するかどうかを尋ねた。

2.Car firms are desperate to achieve economies of scale.: 自動車メーカーは必死に規模経済を実現しようとしている。

3.There are many who will work hard to achieve these goals.: 有志が共同でこれらの目標を達成するために努力する。

4.It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she had wanted.: 彼女は数奇なことをしてやっと目的を達成した。

5.Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.: 女性は多くの分野で給料や地位の平等を勝ち取れていない。