godsend
英 ['gɒdsend]
美 ['ɡɑd,sɛnd]
英語の語源
- godsend (n.)
- "unlooked-for acquisition or good fortune," 1812, earlier "a shipwreck" (from the perspective of people living along the coast), by 1806, from Middle English Godes sonde (c. 1200) "God's messenger; what God sends, gift from God, happening caused by God," from God + Middle English sonde "that which is sent, message," from Old English sand, from sendan (see send (v.)).
The common people in Cornwall call, as impiously as inhumanely, a shipwreck on their shores, "a Godsend." [Rev. William Lisle Bowles, footnote in "The Works of Alexander Pope," London, 1806]
例文
- 1. He called the Polaroid camera a godsend to his work.
- 彼はポラロイドカメラを神様がわざわざ彼の仕事のために与えた宝物だと呼んでいる。
- 2.This new benefit has come as a godsend for low-income families.
- 新着救済金は低所得世帯のタイムリーな雨である。
- 3.Her gift of money was a godsend .
- 彼女が送ってきたお金は望外の喜びだった。
- 4.Pharmacists are a godsend when you don 't feel sick enough to call the doctor.
- 病気になっても重篤ではなく、医者に診てもらう必要がないときは、薬局は助かります。
- 5.That 's a godsend ：I 'm saved！
- これが天の恵みであり、私に本を翻してもらう。
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