blindfold

• vt. 目隠しする；視界を遮る；ぼやけさせる
• adj.軽率な、盲目な；見ることができない；目隠しをする
• n. 騙す、目隠しする
• adv. 盲目的に、無謀に、軽率に

古英語のblindfellenを書き換えたもの。blind, 盲目。 fell, 切り倒す, 倒す。もともとはblindfoldだが、後にfold, blindfold, blindfoldに変化。

blindfold

blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled, came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connection with fold (presumably the ‘folding’ of the bandage round somebody’s head), conspired to produce the new verb blindfold.

blindfold (v.)

1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c. 1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.

blindfold (n.)

1880, from blindfold (v.).

1. The prisoner wore a blindfold when he was executed.

処刑時に犯人はアイマスクをしていた。

2.The Australian chess grandmaster Ian Rogers took on six opponents blindfold and beat five.

オーストラリアチェスのトップクラスの巨匠イアン?ロジャーズが6人の相手と盲目将棋をし、5人に勝った。

3.He read the letter again although already he could have recited its contents blindfold .

手紙の内容を逆さまにすることができたにもかかわらず、彼はもう一度見た。

4.I could do that blindfold ，ie easily，regardless of obstacles.

私は目隠しをしてもできます（苦労しないで、どんな障害も無視して）。

5.They put a blindfold on a horse.

彼らは馬に目隠し布をかぶせた。