baker
英 ['beɪkə]
美 ['bekɚ]
英語の語源
- baker (n.)
- Old English b?cere "baker," agent noun from bacan "to bake" (see bake (v.)). In the Middle Ages, the craft had two divisions, braun-bakeres and whit-bakeres.
White bakers shall bake no hors brede..broune bakers shall bake whete brede as it comyth grounde fro the mylle withoute ony bultyng of the same. Also the seid broune bakers shall bake hors brede of clene benys and pesyn, And also brede that is called housholdersbrede. [Letterbook in the City of London Records Office, Guildhall, 1441]
Baker's dozen "thirteen" is from 1590s.
These dealers [hucksters] ... on purchasing their bread from the bakers, were privileged by law to receive thirteen batches for twelve, and this would seem to have been the extent of their profits. Hence the expression, still in use, "A baker's dozen." [H.T. Riley, "Liber Albus," 1859]
例文
- 1. They 're freshly baked.I fetched them from the baker 's this morning.
- これらは出たばかりです。私は朝パン屋に行って買ってきました。
- 2.Professor Baker is unacquainted with the idea of representative democracy.
- ベイカー教授は「代議制民主」という思想に精通していない。
- 3.Mr Baker was speaking off the cuff when he made those suggestions.
- ベイカー氏は臨時にそれらの提案をした。
- 4.Before his first round of discussions，Mr Baker sounded an optimistic note.
- 第1回討論の前に、ベイカー氏は楽観的に聞こえた。
- 5. Baker suggested the administration wasn 't raring for a fight.
- ベイカーは、行政が争いに巻き込まれることを急いでいないことを示唆した。
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