golden
英 ['gəʊld(ə)n]
美 ['ɡoldən]
- adj.金色の、金のような; 貴重な; 金で作られた
- n. （金色の）人名；（英、仏、独、スウェーデン語の）ゴードン
英語の語源
- golden (adj.)
- c. 1300, "made of gold," from gold (n.) + -en (2); replacing Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan. Gold is one of the few Modern English nouns that form adjectives meaning "made of ______" by adding -en (as in wooden, leaden, waxen, olden); those that survive often do so in specialized senses. Old English also had silfren "made of silver," st?nen "made of stone," etc.
From late 14c. as "of the color of gold." Figurative sense of "excellent, precious, best, most valuable" is from late 14c.; that of "favorable, auspicious" is from c. 1600. Golden mean "avoidance of excess" translates Latin aurea mediocritas (Horace). Golden age "period of past perfection" is from 1550s, from a concept found in Greek and Latin writers; in sense of "old age" it is recorded from 1961. San Francisco Bay's entrance channel was called the Golden Gate by John C. Fremont (1866). The moralistic golden rule earlier was the golden law (1670s).
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them [Matt. vii:12]
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. [George Bernard Shaw, 1898]
例文
- 1. Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude.
- 長い金色のビーチを想像してみましょう。そこでは一人で歩くことができます。
- 2.First-generation Americans view the United States as a land of golden opportunity.
- 初代アメリカ人はアメリカをチャンスに満ちた国だと思っていた。
- 3.If you remember these three golden rules you won 't go far wrong.
- この3つの金律を覚えておけば、どこにも間違いはありません。
- 4.The rising sun casts a golden glow over the fields.
- ゆっくりと昇る太陽が田野に金色の太陽の光をこぼしている。
- 5.Orange and khaki flatter those with golden skin tones.
- オレンジ色とカーキ色は、黄金色の肌の人を引き立てます。