dike
英 美 [daik]
- n. 堤防;障害物;溝
- vt.保護するために堤防を築く;排水するために溝を開く(堤防に等しい)
- n.(ダイク)人名;(英?西)堤防;(西)堤防
英語の語源
- dike (n.)
- Old English dic "trench, ditch; an earthwork with a trench; moat," from Proto-Germanic *dik- (cognates: Old Norse diki "ditch, fishpond," Old Frisian dik "mound, dam," Middle Dutch dijc "mound, dam, pool," Dutch dijk "dam," German Deich "embankment"), from PIE root *dhigw- "to pierce; to fix, fasten" (cognates: Sanskrit dehi- "wall," Old Persian dida "wall, stronghold, fortress," Persian diz).
At first "an excavation," later (late 15c.) applied to the resulting earth mound; a sense development paralleled by cognate forms in many other languages. This is the northern variant of the word that in the south of England yielded ditch (n.).
例文
- 1. A small wooden bridge stradddled the dike .
- 小さな木の橋が排水路に横たわっている。
- 2.They dug a dike along walls of the school.
- 彼らは校壁に沿って溝を掘った。
- 3.Fortunately,the flood did not break the dike .
- 幸い、この大水は堤防を壊していない。
- 4.When the river dike is completed,the crops will be safe against floods.
- 川の堤防を修理すれば、作物は浸水することを恐れない。
- 5.The most impressive form of intrusive is the dike .
- 最も注目される侵入体は岩脈である。
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