camouflage
英 ['kæməflɑːʒ]
美 ['kæmə'flɑʒ]
- n. 変装、偽装
- vt.カモフラージュする、変装する
- vi.変装する
語源
カモフラージュ語源は不明。capo muffare（頭を覆う）の語源かもしれない。
英語の語源
- camouflage
- camouflage: [20] Camouflage reached the English language during World War I, when the art of concealing objects from the enemy was considerably developed. It is of French origin, a derivative of the verb camoufler ‘disguise’, which came from Italian camuffare ‘disguise, trick’.
- camouflage
- 1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler, Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered by influence of French camouflet "puff of smoke," on the notion of "blow smoke in someone's face." The British navy in World War I called it dazzle-painting.
Since the war started the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY has published photographs of big British and French field pieces covered with shrubbery, railway trains "painted out" of the landscape, and all kinds of devices to hide the guns, trains, and the roads from the eyes of enemy aircraft.
Until recently there was no one word in any language to explain this war trick. Sometimes a whole paragraph was required to explain this military practice. Hereafter one word, a French word, will save all this needless writing and reading. Camouflage is the new word, and it means "fooling the enemy." ["Popular Science Monthly," August 1917]
例文
- 1. They were dressed in camouflage and carried automatic rifles.
- 彼らは迷彩服を着て、自動小銃を持っている。
- 2.The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage .
- ホッキョクグマの白い濃密な柔らかい毛は天然の偽装である。
- 3.They used branches of trees as camouflage .
- 彼らは木の枝を偽装している。
- 4.The animal 's markings provide effective camouflage .
- この動物の斑紋は効果的な偽装である。
- 5.I think that there has been an attempt to camouflage what really happened.
- 誰かが真実を隠そうとしていると思う。
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