bent
英 [bent]
美 [bɛnt]
- n. 趣味、中毒
- adj.
- n. （ベント）人の名前；（英語、スペイン語、デンマーク語、ノルウェー語、インド語）ベント
英語の語源
- bent (n.1)
- "mental inclination," 1570s, probably from earlier literal sense "condition of being deflected or turned" (1530s), from bent (adj.) "not straight" (q.v.).
- bent (n.2)
- "stiff grass," Old English beonet, from West Germanic *binut- "rush, marsh grass" (cognates: Old Saxon binet, Old High German binuz, German Binse "rush, reed"), which is of unknown origin. An obsolete word, but surviving in place names (such as Bentley, from Old English Beonet-leah; Bentham).
The verdure of the plain lies buried deep
Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents,
And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest,
Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine
Conspicuous, and, in bright apparel clad
And fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb.
[Cowper, "The Winter-Morning Walk," from "The Task"]
- bent (adj.)
- "not straight," late 14c. (earlier ibent, c. 1300, from past participle of bend (v.). Meaning "turned or inclined in some direction" is from 1530s, probably as a translation of Latin inclinatio. Meaning "directed in a course" is from 1690s. Figurative phrase bent out of shape "extremely upset" is 1960s U.S. Air Force and college student slang.
例文
- 1. Then she bent over and gave him an eyeful of her tattoos.
- 次に彼女は身をかがめて、彼に彼女の文体をよく見させた。
- 2.Everyone in the room was bent over her desk.
- 部屋の誰もが彼女のオフィスデスクの前でウエストを曲げている。
- 3.She was bent over the sink washing the dishes.
- 彼女は水槽のそばに俯いて皿を洗った。
- 4.The messenger bent and scratched at his knee where the strapping chafed.
- 送信者は腰をかがめ、膝が足を縛られて赤くなったところを掻いた。
- 5.The rod bent double，the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
- 操作レバーがさらに曲がり、スプールが耳障りなきしみ音を立てた。
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