grasshopper
英 ['grɑːshɒpə]
美 ['ɡræshɑpɚ]
- n. バッタ; [植物保護]イナゴ; 小型偵察機
- vi.気が変わる；バッタのように飛び跳ねる。
語源
grasshopper イナゴ、バッタ。草、草。ホッパー、ジャンプ。
英語の語源
- grasshopper (n.)
- popular name of insects with hind legs suited to jumping, mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c. 1200), from Old English g?rshoppa; see grass + hopper (n.1). Similar formation in Middle Swedish gr?shoppare, German Grashüpfer. As a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii:5. Also recorded c. 1300 as a name for the hare.
例文
- 1. Moreover， GRASSHOPPER is also the agent of many famous cabinet and hardware companies in east Europe.
- GRASSHOPPER は同時に多くのヨーロッパで有名なショーケース金属の東欧代理店でもある。
- 2.I 've known him since he was knee-high to a grasshopper .
- 彼は小さい頃から彼を知っていた。
- 3.Charles started reading when he was knee-high to a grasshopper .
- チャールズは小さい頃から本を読み始めた。
- 4.He thought he had made an end of the little grasshopper .
- あのバッタを殺したと思っていた。
- 5.A：How can you eat that grasshopper ？It doesn 't make you sick？
- どうしてバッタを食べられるの？気持ち悪くないですか？