英単語

alwaysの意味・使い方・発音

always

英 ['ɔːlweɪz; -ɪz] 美 ['ɔlwez]
  • adv.いつも、いつも、しばしば

語源


常に

複合語all way , -s 主格接尾辞から。

英語の語源


always
always: [13] In Old English, the expression was alne weg, literally ‘all the way’. It seems likely that this was used originally in the physical sense of ‘covering the complete distance’, but by the time it starts to appear in texts (King Alfred’s is the first recorded use, in his translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae around 888) it already meant ‘perpetually’. Alway survived into modern English, albeit as an archaism, but began to be replaced as the main form by always in the 12th century.

The final -s is genitive, not plural, and was originally added to all as well as way: alles weis. It has a generalizing force, much as in modern English one might say of a morning for ‘every morning’.

=> way
always (adv.)
mid-14c., compound of Old English phrase ealne weg "always, quite, perpetually," literally "all the way," with accusative of space or distance, though the oldest recorded usages refer to time; see all + way (n.). The adverbial genitive -s appeared early 13c. and is now the standard, though the variant alway survived into 1800s. OED speculates allway was originally of space or distance, "but already in the oldest Eng. transferred to an extent of time."

例文


1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get,there 's always something new to learn about.After all,life is full of surprises.
どこに住んでいても、あなたは何歳になっても、いつも新しいことを学ぶ必要があります。結局、生活はいつも驚きに満ちています。

毎日一言


2.The ideological divisions between the parties aren 't always obvious.
政党間のイデオロギー的境界線は常に明確ではない。

3.There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.
コミュニティ放送局と商業放送局は常に区別されている。

4.It is nearly always women who are the primary care givers.
初級保健看護の仕事をしているのはほとんど女性です。

5.She 's going to be fine.She always was pretty strong.
彼女はよくなるだろう。彼女はずっと丈夫だった。

頭文字