bush

• n. 低木；灌木
• vt.灌木で飾る；枯らす
• vi. 群生する；生い茂る
• adj.潅木のように低く生える；無骨な

語源は不明。おそらくPIE *bheue（存在する、成長する、生息する）から。語源はbe.と同じで、低木の粘り強さを指す。

bush

bush: [13] Bush comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *busk-, which also produced German busch ‘bush’. There is no actual record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed as *bysc. The Germanic base was also borrowed into the Romance languages, where in French it eventually produced bois ‘wood’. A diminutive form of this gave English bouquet [18], while a variant bosc may have been at least partly responsible for the now archaic English bosky ‘wooded’ [16]. A derived Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre gave English ambush.
=> ambush, bouquet, oboe

bush (n.)

"many-stemmed woody plant," Old English bysc, from West Germanic *busk "bush, thicket" (cognates: Old Saxon and Old High German busc, Dutch bosch, bos, German Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (such as Old Norse buskr, Danish busk, but this might be from West Germanic) and Old French (busche "firewood," apparently of Frankish origin), and also perhaps Anglo-Latin bosca "firewood," from Medieval Latin busca (whence Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, French bois), which apparently also was borrowed from West Germanic; compare Boise.

In British American colonies, applied from 1650s to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably originally from Dutch bosch in the same sense, because it seems to appear first in English in former Dutch colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see beat (v.)).

1. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.

彼らは茂ったモザンビークのジャングルを36時間かけて通り抜けた。

2.George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote.

ジョージ?W.ブッシュ氏が同州で56%の得票率で勝利した。

3.He raced ahead up into the bush ，barking and snarling.

それは叫んで前に突き進んで、植え込みに潜り込んだ。

4.You have to prune a bush if you want fruit.

灌木に結果を出すには、剪定を行わなければなりません。

5.The Bush Foundation has funded a variety of faculty development programs.

ブッシュ財団はすでに多くの教員開発プロジェクトを支援している。