batten
英 ['bæt(ə)n]
美 ['bætn]
- n.スラット; 曲線; バックボード; 小さな角材
- vt.釘留めを......にする；太らせる；スラットを張る
- vi.太らせる；大食させる
- n. （バッテン）人名；（日本語）バッテン；（英語）バッテン
英語の語源
- batten (n.)
- "strip of wood (especially used to fasten canvas over ships' hatches)," 1650s, anglicized variant of baton "a stick, a staff" (see baton). Nautical use attested from 1769.
- batten (v.1)
- "to improve; to fatten," 1590s, probably representing an English dialectal survival of Old Norse batna "improve" (cognates: Old English batian, Old Frisian batia, Old High German bazen, Gothic gabatnan "to become better, avail, benefit," Old English bet "better;" also see boot (v.)). Related: Battened; battening.
- batten (v.2)
- "to furnish with battens," 1775, from batten (n.); phrase batten down recorded from 1823. Related: Battened; battening.
例文
- 1. It is not fair to batten on one 's relatives.
- 親戚を利用して私腹を肥やすのはよくない.
- 2.Can he still batten upon the blood of the employees nowadays？
- 今でも従業員の血と汗を搾り取って自分を養うことができますか。
- 3.Capitalists batten on the surplus value created by workers.
- 資本家は労働者が作り出した余剰価値を搾取して豊かになる。
- 4.A large number of spot：1 CM batten Korea，Mongolia Black Blocks，Slabs.
- 大量現物：1 CM韓国スラブ、モンゴル黒粗材、厚板.
- 5.The crew had been mustered to batten down the hatches.
- すべての船員が集まって嵐に襲われないようにカプセル化された。
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