cope: There are two distinct words cope in English. The now more familiar one, ‘deal with’ [14], comes from Old French coper, and originally meant ‘hit, punch’. The Old French verb was a derivative of the noun cop ‘blow’, which in turn was a variant of colp (from which modern French gets coup, borrowed into English in the 18th century). This came via medieval Latin colpus (ultimate source of English coppice) and Latin colaphus from Greek kólaphos ‘blow, punch’.
The modern English sense of the verb developed via ‘come to blows with’ and ‘contend with’ to ‘handle successfully’. Cope ‘cloak’ [13] was borrowed from medieval Latin cāpa, a variant of cappa, which produced English cap and cape as well as chapel and chaperone. It may ultimately be descended from Latin caput ‘head’. => coppice, coup; cap, cape, chapel, chaperon
cope (v.)
late 14c., "come to blows with," from Old French couper, earlier colper "hit, punch," from colp "a blow" (see coup). Meaning evolved 17c. into "handle successfully," perhaps influenced by obsolete cope "to traffic" (15c.-17c.), a word in North Sea trade, from the Flemish version of the Germanic source of English cheap. Related: Coped; coping.
例文
1. Somehow Karin managed to cope with the demands of her career.
カリンは何とかしてその職業の要求を達成した。
2.Depression lowers the human ability to cope with disease.
うつ病は、病気に対する人体の抵抗力を低下させる。
3.We needed to reskill our workforce to cope with massive technological change.
大きな技術変革に対応するために、労働者に新しいスキルを学ばせなければなりません。
4.When the children misbehaved she was unable to cope .
子供たちがいたずらをしている間は彼女は管理できない。
5.He was thick-skinned enough to cope with her taunts.