agentの意味・使い方・発音

agent

英 ['eɪdʒ(ə)nt] 美 ['edʒənt]

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agを語源とし、行為を伴う。

agent: agent: [15] Latin agere, a verb of great semantic breadth (‘drive, lead, act, do’), has been a prolific source of English words. Its past participle, āctus, produced act, action, active, actor, actual, cachet, and exact, while other parts of its paradigm lie behind agile, agitate, ambiguous, coagulate, cogent, cogitate, examine, exigent, exiguous, and prodigal.

Its most obvious offspring, however, are agent (literally ‘(person) doing something’) and agency, formed from the Latin present participial stem agent-. Agere itself is of considerable antiquity, being related to other Indo-European verbs such as Greek ágein ‘drive, lead’, Old Norse aka ‘travel in a vehicle’, and Sanskrit ájati ‘drives’.
=> act, agile, ambiguous, cachet, cogent, demagogue, exact, examine, prodigal
agent (n.): late 15c., "one who acts," from Latin agentem (nominative agens) "effective, powerful," present participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, lead, conduct" (see act (n.)). Meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is from 1550s. Meaning "deputy, representative" is from 1590s. Sense of "spy, secret agent" is attested by 1916.
agent (adj.): 1610s, from agent (n.).

1. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.: この工作員は東ドイツのために20年以上スパイをしてきた。

2.We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque.: 私たちは不動産ブローカーのところに小切手が発行されるまで歩いた。

3. Cheap flights are available from budget travel agent from ￡240.: 料金の安い旅行会社は240ポンドからの格安航空券を提供することができる。

4.Remember，the estate agent is working for the vendor.: 不動産代理店は不動産売り手のためにサービスしていることを覚えておいてください。

5. My agent told me, "This'll make your name a household word.「: 私のマネージャーは、「これはあなたを一躍有名にするだろう」と教えてくれました。