crime: [14] Crime is one of a wide range of English words (including certain, crisis, critic, decree, discern, discrete, discriminate, excrement, riddle ‘sieve’, secret, and secretary) which come ultimately from or are related to the Greek verb krínein ‘decide’. This was a relative of Latin cernere ‘decide’, from whose root evolved the noun crīmen ‘judgment, accusation, illegal act’. This passed via Old French crimne (later crime) into English, where traces of the original meaning ‘accusation’ survived until the 17th century. => certain, critic, decree, discriminate, excrement, secret
crime (n.)
mid-13c., "sinfulness," from Old French crimne (12c., Modern French crime), from Latin crimen (genitive criminis) "charge, indictment, accusation; crime, fault, offense," perhaps from cernere "to decide, to sift" (see crisis). But Klein (citing Brugmann) rejects this and suggests *cri-men, which originally would have been "cry of distress" (Tucker also suggests a root in "cry" words and refers to English plaint, plaintiff, etc.). Meaning "offense punishable by law" is from late 14c. The Latin word is glossed in Old English by facen, also "deceit, fraud, treachery." Crime wave first attested 1893, American English.
例文
1. It was a crime of espionage and carried the death penalty.
スパイ罪であり、死刑にすべきである。
2.The President could continue to bash Democrats as being soft on crime .
大統領は、民主党員の犯罪活動への優しさを批判し続けるかもしれない。
3.The sum of evidence points to the crime resting on them.
すべての証拠は、この犯罪が彼らのものであることを示している。
4.Somewhat ingenuously，he explains how the crime may be accomplished.
彼はこの犯罪がどのように行われたのかを少し無邪気に説明した。
5.The crime was so base that everyone wanted to hush it up.