bane

• n. 毒；災い；絶滅の原因
• n. （ベイン）人名；（仏）バナ；（セイ）ベイン；（日）ベイン；（英）ベイン

PIE *gwhenから、打つ、殺す。語源的にはgun、銃と同じ。 defend、追い払う、防御する。

bane (n.)

Old English bana "killer, slayer, murderer; the devil," from Proto-Germanic *banon, cognate with *banja- "wound" (cognates: Old Frisian bona "murderer," Old Norse bani, Old High German bana "murder," Old English benn "wound," Gothic banja "stroke, wound"), from PIE root *gwhen- "to strike, kill, wound" (cognates: Avestan banta "ill"). Modern sense of "that which causes ruin or woe" is from 1570s.

1. Rain is the bane of holiday-makers.

雨の日は休暇者を悩ませる。

2.The neighbours 'kids are the bane of my life.

近所の子は私を落ち着かせてくれなかった。

3.A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane .

豚の死はすべて体の肥満によるものだった。

4.Avarice is the bane to happiness.

欲張りは幸福を破壊する禍根である。

5.Spots can be the bane of a teenager 's life.

ニキビは青少年に限りない悩みをもたらします。