beachの意味・使い方・発音

beach

英 [biːtʃ] 美 [bitʃ]

ビーチ

語源は不明だが、原義は小さな石を意味する。

beach: beach: [16] Beach is a mystery word. When it first turns up, in the dialect of the southeast corner of England, it means ‘shingle’; and since long stretches of the seashore in Sussex and Kent are pebbly, it is a natural extension that the word for ‘shingle’ should come to be used for ‘shore’. Its ultimate source is obscure, but some etymologists have suggested a connection with Old English b?ce or bece ‘stream’ (a relative of English beck [14]), on the grounds that the new meaning could have developed from the notion of the ‘pebbly bed of a stream’.
=> beck
beach (n.): 1530s, "loose, water-worn pebbles of the seashore," probably from Old English b?ce, bece "stream," from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." French grève shows the same evolution. Beach ball first recorded 1940; beach bum first recorded 1950.
beach (v.): "to haul or run up on a beach," 1840, from beach (n.). Related: Beached; beaching.

1. For a beach resort with a difference,try Key West.: 一風変わったビーチリゾートに行きたいなら、キーウェストに行きましょう。

2.Planes dropped bombs and raked the beach with machine gun fire.: 飛行機は爆弾を投下し、機関銃でビーチを掃射した。

3.Some stretches of beach are completely underwater at high tide.: 干潟の一部は満潮時に完全に水に浸かっている。

4.We got to the beach at five of one in the afternoon.: 私たちは午後1時5分前にビーチに到着しました。

5.Issa 's white beach hat gleamed in the harsh lights.: イザの白いビーチハットはまぶしい日差しの下でキラキラしています。