deliver: [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective līber ‘free’. Its meaning developed through ‘set free’ to ‘give up, surrender’ and finally ‘hand over to someone else’. (Classical Latin dēlīberāre, source of English deliberate [15], is an entirely different verb, derived from Latin lībra ‘scales’.) => liberate
deliver (v.)
c. 1200, "save, rescue, set free, liberate," from Old French delivrer "to set free; remove; save, preserve; hand over (goods)," also used of childbirth, from Late Latin deliberare, from de- "away" (see de-) + Latin liberare "to free" (see liberal (adj.)).
Childbirth sense in English, "to bring (a woman) to childbirth," is from c. 1300. Sense of "hand over, give, give up, yield" is c. 1300. in English, which brings it in opposition to its root. Meaning "project, throw" is 1590s. Related: Delivered; delivering.
例文
1. I have orders to deliver it to Mr Demiris personally.
私はそれをデミリスさん本人に贈るように命じられました。
2.The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia.
カナダはソマリア南部地域により多くの食品を輸送する計画だ。
3.As long as I deliver the goods,my boss is very happy.
私が本業をしっかりしていれば、私のボスは喜んでいます。
4.They have yet to show that they can really deliver working technologies.
彼らは実際に実用技術を開発できることを証明していない。
5.The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents.