e-mail
英 ['i:meɪl]
美 ['i,mel]
英語の語源
- e-mail
- 1982, short for electronic mail (1977; see electronic + mail (n.1)); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail (1983) to the old system.
Even aerial navigation in 1999 was found too slow to convey and deliver the mails. The pneumatic tube system was even swifter, and with such facilities at hand it is not surprising that people in San Francisco received four daily editions of the Manhattan journals, although the distance between Sandy Hook and the Golden Gate is a matter of 3,600 miles. ["Looking Forward," Arthur Bird, 1899]
Associated Press style guide collapsed it to email 2011.
例文
- 1. ブルース?スプリングスティーン（Bruce Springsteen has re-hired his muso collective，the E Street Band.
- ブルース?スプリングスティーン）が彼の音楽チーム、 E ストリート?バンドを再結成した。
- 2.Large supplemental doses of vitamin E can slightly raise blood pressure.
- ビタミン E を大量に補充すると血圧が高くなる可能性がある。
- 3.These reactive mole-cules are mopped up and made harmless by Vitamin E .
- これらの活性分子はビタミン E によって不活性化されており、害はありません。
- 4.Passes are graded from "A "down to " E ".
- 合格点はAから E までいくつかの等級に分けられる。
- 5."O.O.B. E ." is short for "Out Of Body Experience".
- O.O.B. E .はOutOfBodyExperience（身外体験）の略形式である。