ambush: [14] Originally, ambush meant literally ‘put in a bush’ – or more precisely ‘hide in a wood, from where one can make a surprise attack’. The hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre was formed from the prefix in- and the noun *boscus ‘bush, thicket’ (a word of Germanic origin, related to English bush). In Old French this became embuschier, and when English acquired it its prefix gradually became transformed into am-.
In the 16th century, various related forms were borrowed into English – Spanish produced ambuscado, Italian was responsible for imboscata, and French embuscade was anglicized was ambuscade – but none now survives other than as an archaism. => bush
ambush (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French embuscher (13c., Modern French emb?cher) "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frankish *busk "bush, woods" (see bush (n.)). Related: Ambushed; ambushing.
ambush (n.)
late 15c., embushe, from the English verb or from Middle French embusche, from Old French embuscher (see ambush (v.)). Earlier was ambushment (late 14c.). Figurative use by 1590s.
例文
1. A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush .
警官が待ち伏せ攻撃で着弾して死亡した。
2.The gunmen，lying in ambush ，opened fire，killing the driver.
待ち伏せしていた射手が運転手を撃って死亡させた。
3.Two soldiers were killed in a terrorist ambush .
2人の兵士がテロリストに待ち伏せされて死亡した。
4.The enemy chased the decoys down to the place of ambush .
敵は誘惑者を伏兵の所在地まで追いかけた。
5.Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.