adulation

• n. お世辞、おべっか

接頭辞ad-、行く、行く。語根のul、tailはsquirrelと同じで、大きな尾、リスを指す。尻尾を振ることを指す。

adulation (n.)

late 14c., "insincere praise," from Old French adulacion, from Latin adulationem (nominative adulatio) "a fawning; flattery, cringing courtesy," noun of action from past participle stem of aduliari "to flatter," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + ulos "tail," from PIE *ul- "the tail" (cognates: Sanskrit valah "tail," Lithuanian valai "horsehair of the tail"). The original notion is "to wag the tail" like a fawning dog (compare Greek sainein "to wag the tail," also "to flatter;" see also wheedle).

1. The book was received with adulation by critics.

この本は評論家にもてはやされている。

2.The teenager 's adulation of the top group worried her parents.

10代の娘がポップスターをもてあそんで親を心配させている。

3.He thrived on the adulation of his henchmen.

彼は部下のお世辞で出世した.

4.He has spent a month backing in the adulation of the fans back in Jamaica.

彼は1ヶ月もジャマイカのファンたちの支持に浸っていた。

5.She had not had adulation and affectionate propossitions before.

昔、彼女はお世辞を言う人もいなかったし、求愛する人もいなかった。