cornerstone
英 ['kɔːnəstəʊn]
美 ['kɔrnɚston]
英語の語源
- cornerstone (n.)
- late 13c., from corner (n.) + stone (n.). The figurative use is from early 14c.
I endorse without reserve the much abused sentiment of Governor M'Duffie, that "Slavery is the corner-stone of our republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal." No society has ever yet existed, and I have already incidentally quoted the highest authority to show that none ever will exist, without a natural variety of classes. [James H. Hammond, "Letter to an English Abolitionist" 1845]
例文
- 1. This study is the cornerstone of the whole research programme.
- この研究は研究計画全体の基礎である。
- 2.Wage control is the cornerstone of the government 's economic policy.
- 賃金抑制は政府の経済政策の基礎である。
- 3.The mayor laid the cornerstone of the new library.
- 市長は新しい図書館の礎を築いた。
- 4.The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx 's economic theory.
- 残存価値説はマルクス経済理論の礎である。
- 5.The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of moraity.
- 私たち宗教の創始者はこれを道徳の礎と見なしている。
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