assertion
英 [ə'sɜːʃ(ə)n]
美 [ə'sɝʃən]
英語の語源
- assertion (n.)
- early 15c., assercioun, from Middle French assertion (14c.) or directly from Late Latin assertionem (nominative assertio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin asserere "claim rights over something, state, maintain, affirm," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + serere "join" (see series). By "joining oneself" to a particular view, one "claimed" or "maintained" it.
例文
- 1. These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
- これらの制度は、民族アイデンティティの主張を実現することを可能にする。
- 2.Self- assertion was not thought seemly in a woman.
- 女性は自信過剰ではないと考えられています。
- 3.He was correct in his assertion that the minister had been lying.
- 彼は部長が嘘をついていると認定したが、事実はやはりそうだ。
- 4.He made an assertion that he was not responsible for it.
- 彼はこのことに責任はないと言い張った。
- 5.He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.
- 原告側証人の断言に反論しようとした。
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