apartment
英 [ə'pɑːtm(ə)nt]
美 [ə'pɑrtmənt]
語源
アパートapart、separate、-ment、名詞の接尾辞。
英語の語源
- apartment (n.)
- 1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.
例文
- 1. She went directly to Simon 's apartment and knocked on the door.
- 彼女はサイモンの部屋に直行し、ノックをした。
- 2.Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.
- ジェロームはパリでアパートを買うよう説得しようとした。
- 3.Stevens wrote him a note asking him to come to his apartment .
- Stevensは自分のアパートに行くようにメモを書いてくれた。/
- 4.The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960 s are crumbling.
- 1960年代に建てられた高低差のあるマンション群が徐々に破損して崩れている。
- 5.It would never do to have Henry there in her apartment .
- ヘンリーが彼女のアパートにいるのはなかなか適切ではない。
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