firmament

• n.空; 天

firm、fixed、solidから。大空を表す神学名詞として使われる。

firmament (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French firmament or directly from Latin firmamentum "firmament," literally "a support, a strengthening," from firmus "strong, steadfast, enduring" (see firm (adj.)). Used in Late Latin in the Vulgate to translate Greek stereoma "firm or solid structure," which translated Hebrew raqia, a word used of both the vault of the sky and the floor of the earth in the Old Testament, probably literally "expanse," from raqa "to spread out," but in Syriac meaning "to make firm or solid," hence the erroneous translation. Related: Firmamental.

1. He was rich，and a rising star in the political firmament .

彼は非常に金持ちで、政治上層部のゆっくりと昇る新星だ。

2.There are no stars in the firmament .

空には星が1つもありません。

3.a rising star in the literary firmament

文壇にゆっくりと昇る新星

4.Everything Aleck touched turned to fairy gold，and heaped itself glittering toward the firmament .

どんなものでも、エレコは石を点けて金になることができて、金色に輝く富は積もるほど高くなり、空に迫る。dd>

-三万元遺産

5.The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above.

夜、最小の池は星空を映し出す。