earring
英 ['ɪərɪŋ]
美 ['ɪrɪŋ]
- n. イヤリング、ピアス
- v.ピクピクする；耳にする（earのing形）
英語の語源
- earring (n.)
- also ear-ring, Old English earhring, from ear (n.1) + hring (see ring (n.)). Another Old English word was earspinl. Now including any sort of ornament in the ear; the pendant sort originally were ear-drops (1720). Worn by Romanized Britons and Anglo-Saxons alike; their use declined in the Middle Ages and was reintroduced in England 16c., but after 17c. were worn there almost exclusively by women.
The two groups which had formerly a near monopoly on male earrings were Gypsies and sailors. Both has the usual traditions about eyesight, but it was also said that sailors' earrings would save them from drowning, while others argued that should a sailor be drowned and washed up on some foreign shore, his gold earrings would pay for a proper Christian burial. ["Dictionary of English Folklore"]
例文
- 1. She is wearing a small ruby earring .
- 彼女はルビーの小さなイヤリングをつけている。
- 2.How long have you worn that earring ？
- どのくらいそのイヤリングをつけていますか。
超越目標英語3冊目から
- 3.A sailor wearing earring now looks very strange to us.
- 現在のセーラーのイヤリングは、私たちから見れば目障りです。
- 4.Keep looking.We 're bound to find the earring sometime.
- 探し続けます。私たちは必ずイヤリングを見つけます。(必ず、肯定)
- 5.Man B：Don 't make such a big deal，it 's only an earring .
- 男乙：大したことない、イヤリングだ.