believeの意味・使い方・発音

believe

英 [bɪ'liːv] 美 [bɪ'liv]

信じる

接頭辞be-、強調。-愛のように信じる。

believe: believe: [OE] Believing and loving are closely allied. Late Old English belēfan took the place of an earlier gelēfan ‘believe’ (with the associative prefix ge-), which can be traced back to a prehistoric West and North Germanic *galaubjan (source also of German glauben ‘believe’). This meant ‘hold dear, love’, and hence ‘trust in, believe’, and it was formed on a base, *laub-, which also produced, by various routes, English love, lief ‘dear’, leave ‘permission’, and the second element of furlough.
=> furlough, leave, lief, love
believe (v.): Old English belyfan "to believe," earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (West Saxon) "believe," from Proto-Germanic *ga-laubjan "to believe," perhaps literally "hold dear, love" (cognates: Old Saxon gilobian "believe," Dutch geloven, Old High German gilouben, German glauben), ultimately a compound based on PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (see belief).

Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered, perhaps by influence of relieve, etc. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c. Related: Believed (formerly occasionally beleft); believing. Expression believe it or not attested by 1874; Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of the same name is from 1918. Emphatic you better believe attested from 1854.

1. Words like " believe "and "receive "are a source of confusion in spelling.: believe やreceiveのようなワードはスペル上で紛らわしい.

2.I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.: 彼はきっとダイアナのことを心配していると信じています。

3.I believe that a journalist should be completely objective.: 新聞記者は少しも偏見を持つべきではないと思います。

5.They can 't believe you can even hold a conversation.: 彼らはあなたが会話を続けることができるとは信じられません。