conception
英 [kən'sepʃ(ə)n]
美 [kən'sɛpʃən]
英語の語源
- conception (n.)
- early 14c., "act of conceiving," from Old French concepcion (Modern French conception) "conception, grasp, comprehension," from Latin conceptionem (nominative conceptio) "a comprehending, conception," noun of action from stem of concipere (see conceive). Originally in the womb sense (also with reference to Conception Day in the Church calendar); mental sense "process of forming concepts" is late 14c. Meaning "that which is conceived in the mind" is from 1520s; "general notion" is from 1785.
例文
- 1. Conception occurs when a single sperm fuses with an egg.
- 精子と卵子が結合すると受胎が発生する。
- 2.The other fundamental consideration in the conception of a plan is function.
- 設計図を構想する際に考慮するもう1つの基本的な要素は機能である。
- 3.The plan was brilliant in its conception but failed because of lack of money.
- この計画の構想は絶妙だが、結局資金不足で流産した。
- 4.Man is tempted to live up to woman 's idealised conception of himself.
- 男性は一般的に女性の心の中で理想的な彼になりたいと思っています。
- 5.He 's got a pretty strange conception of friendship.
- 彼は友情に対して非常にユニークな見解を持っている。
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