battleship
英 ['bæt(ə)lʃɪp]
美 ['bætlʃɪp]
英語の語源
- battleship (n.)
- 1794, shortened from line-of-battle ship (1705), one large enough to take part in a main attack (formerly one of 74-plus guns); from battle (n.) + ship (n.). Later in U.S. Navy in reference to a class of ships that carried guns of the largest size. The last was decommissioned in 2006. Battleship-gray as a color is attested from 1916. Fighter and bomber airplanes in World War I newspaper articles were sometimes called battleplanes, but it did not catch on.
例文
- 1. The little boy enjoysメイキング battleship models.
- この少年は戦艦模型を作るのが好きだ。
- 2.A new battleship was launched from a shipyard.
- 新しい戦艦がドックから進水した。
- 3.They moved two destroyers into the area to counter the threat from the enemy battleship .
- 彼らは2隻の駆逐艦を開いてこの地域に入り、敵戦艦の脅威に反撃した。
- 4.A British battleship ，which had been damaged severely in the battle of Crete，came limping into Pearl Harbor.
- クレタ島の戦いで深刻な被害を受けた英国の戦艦が辛うじてゆっくりと真珠湾に入った。
- 5.Later air reconnaissance showed that the battleship was heavily damaged.
- 事後、空中偵察により、この戦艦は重傷を負っていることが明らかになった。
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