detail: [17] Etymologically, a detail is a ‘little piece cut off’. It comes from French détail, a derivative of détailler ‘cut up’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dé- and tailler ‘cut’ (a relative of English tailor and tally). English acquired the word via the French phrase en détail ‘piece by piece, item by item’, source of the central modern meaning ‘individual item, particular’. => tailor, tally
detail (n.)
c. 1600, from French détail, from Old French detail "small piece or quantity," literally "a cutting in pieces," from detaillier "cut in pieces," from de- "entirely" (see de-) + taillier "to cut in pieces" (see tailor).
Modern sense is from French en détail "piece by piece, item by item" (as opposed to en gros), a commercial term used where we would today use retail. Military sense is 1708, from notion of "distribution in detail of the daily orders first given in general," including assignment of specific duties.
detail (v.)
1630s, from French détailler "cut up in pieces; narrate in particulars," from Old French detaillier, from detail (see detail (n.)). Related: Detailed; detailing.
例文
1. No detail was too small to escape her attention.
どんな小さなディテールでも彼女の目からは逃げられない。
2.Though off-puttingly complicated in detail ，local taxes are in essence simple.
地税は細部にわたって複雑だが、本質的には簡単である。
3.The painting had been executed with meticulous attention to detail .
この絵を描くとき、画家は非常に細部に注意しています。
4.Service was outstandingly friendly and efficient，falling down on only only one detail .
サービス態度は極めて良く、効率も非常に高く、小さな場所では人の意を尽くさない。
5.It wasn 't a spur-of-the-moment decision.We discused it in detail beforehand.