entourage

• n. 側近、周囲、環境

en-、入る、作る。-tour,取り囲む、語源的にはturnと同じ。

entourage (n.)

1832, "surroundings, environment," picked up by De Quincey from French entourage, from Middle French entourer "to surround" (16c.), from Old French entour "that which surrounds" (10c.), from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + tour "a circuit" (see tour). Specific sense of "attendant persons, persons among whom as followers or companions one is accustomed to move" recorded in English by 1860.

1. He was accompanied by an entourage of a dozen police officers.

彼には12人の警官が随行している。

2.Among his entourage was a retired general.

彼の随行員の中に引退した将軍がいる。

3.Peter the Great shocked London by his wild behaviour and that of his entourage when he visited England in 1698.

ピョートル大帝とその従者が1698年にイングランドに足を踏み入れた時の蛮行はロンドンを驚かせた。

4.In it were the PR man and another member of his entourage .

車には彼の連絡先ともう一人の従者も乗っている。

5.In Hitler 's entourage this drawing was regarded as blasphemous.

ヒトラーの周りの人は私のこの絵を侮蔑不敬と見なしている。