column: [15] The notion underlying column is of ‘height, command, extremity’. It comes, via Old French colomne, from Latin columna ‘pillar’, which was probably a derivative of columen, culmen ‘top, summit’ (from which English also gets culminate). It goes back ultimately to a base *kol-, *kel-, distant ancestor of English excel and hill. The word’s application to vertical sections of printed matter dates from the 15th century, but its transference to that which is written (as in ‘write a weekly newspaper column’) is a 20thcentury development. => culminate, excel, hill
column (n.)
mid-15c., "vertical division of a page," also "a pillar, post," from Old French colombe (12c., Modern French colonne "column, pillar"), from Latin columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to project, be prominent" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785.
例文
1. She also writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement.
彼女も定期的にタイムズ高等教育増刊のためにコラムを書いている。
2.Word went out that a column of tanks was on its way.
戦車の一隊が出動したとの情報がある。
3.I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
私は彼のためにテレグラフ紙の毎週のラグビーコラムを代筆します。
4.We had stupidly been looking at the wrong column of figures.
私たちはぼんやりして、数字の列を見ました。
5.A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air.