cabinet

• n. キャビネット; 戸棚; 美術品を展示するための小さなショールーム
• adj.キャビネット；私的な、秘密の

cabin,小屋-et、小単語の接尾辞。小屋での会合、キャビネットに由来する。

cabinet (n.)

1540s, "secret storehouse, treasure chamber," from Middle French cabinet "small room" (16c.), diminutive of Old French cabane "cabin" (see cabin); perhaps influenced by (or rather, from) Italian gabbinetto, diminutive of gabbia, from Latin cavea "stall, stoop, cage, den for animals" (see cave (n.)).

Meaning "case for safe-keeping" (of papers, liquor, etc.) is from 1540s, gradually shading to mean a piece of furniture that does this. Sense of "private room where advisors meet" (c. 1600) led to modern political meaning (1640s); perhaps originally short for cabinet council (1630s); compare board (n.1) in its evolution from place where some group meets to the word for the group that meets there.

1. This issue，more than any other，has divided her cabinet .

主にこの問題が彼女の内閣に食い違いを生じさせた。

2. Cabinet Ministers are selfishly pursuing their own vested interests.

内閣大臣たちは利己的に自分たちの既得利益を追いかけている。

3.The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.

ダウニング街で3時間にわたる閣議後に発表された。

4.He is one of the most hawkish members of the new cabinet .

彼は新内閣の中でタカ派色が最も濃いメンバーの一人だ。

5.All together here are six new faces in the cabinet .

内閣には現在6つの新しい顔があります。