browseの意味・使い方・発音

browse

英 [braʊz] 美 [braʊz]

牛や羊が草を食むこと。

PIE *bhreus（膨らむ、成長する）から。語源的には胸（breast）と同じ。後に牛や羊の放牧、ブラウズから派生した。

browse: browse: [16] Although the noun has now largely died out, browse was originally both a verb and a noun, and appears to come from Old French broust, brost ‘young shoots, twigs’ (hence the verb meant originally ‘feed on such shoots’). The source of the French word is not clear, but it is probably ultimately Germanic; a certain similarity in form and meaning has suggested a connection with the Old Saxon verb brustian ‘bud’ which, if it were so, would mean that browse is related to breast. The modern figurative sense, applied to shops, libraries, etc seems to be 19th-century.
browse (v.): mid-15c., "feed on buds," from Middle French brouster, from Old French broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from Proto-Germanic *brust- "bud, shoot," from PIE *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (see breast (n.)). Lost its final -t in English on the mistaken notion that the letter was a past participle inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, American English. Related: Browsed; browsing.

1. Slow music encourages supermarket-shopers to browse longer but spend more.: 緩やかなコンサートは、スーパーの買い物客がより長い時間をかけて商品を見ながらより多くのお金を使うように促した。

2.I stopped in several bookstores to browse .: 私はいくつかの書店に滞在し、中の本をめくったことがあります。