ferocity
英 [fə'rɒsɪtɪ]
美 [fə'rɑsəti]
英語の語源
- ferocity (n.)
- c. 1600, from French férocité, from Latin ferocitatem (nominative ferocitas) "fierceness," from ferocis, oblique case of ferox "bold, courageous, warlike; fierce, savage, headstrong, cruel," literally "wild-looking," a derivative of ferus "wild" (see fierce) + -ox, -ocem (genitive -ocis), a suffix meaning "looking or appearing" (cognate with Greek ops "eye, sight;" see eye (n.)).
例文
- 1. His intensity and the ferocity of his feelings alarmed me.
- 彼の感情の激しさと狂暴さには驚かされた。
- 2.The police were shocked by the ferocity of the attack.
- 警察はその攻撃の凶暴さに驚いた。
- 3.The uprising was put down with the utmost ferocity .
- 蜂起は極端に残酷に鎮圧された.
- 4.He had never heard such ferocity in a man 's voice.
- 彼は誰かの話しぶりがこんなにひどくなるのを聞いたことがない。
- 5.It attacks its prey with great ferocity .
- 獲物を非常に獰猛に攻撃する。
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