"in good health, robust," Old English hal "healthy, sound, safe; entire; uninjured; genuine, straightforward" (see health). The Scottish and northern English form of whole and with a more etymological spelling. It later acquired a literary sense of "free from infirmity" (1734), especially in reference to the aged. Related: Haleness.
hale (v.)
c. 1200, "drag, pull," in Middle English used of arrows, bowstrings, reins, swords, anchors, etc., from Old French haler "to pull, haul, tow, tug" (12c.), from Frankish *halon or Old Dutch halen or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *halon "to call," from PIE *kele- (2) "to shout" (see claim (v.)). Figurative sense of "to draw (someone) from one condition to another" is late 14c. Related: Haled; haling.
例文
1. The old man is still hale and hearty.
老人の体はまだ硬い。
2.He is eighty,but still hale and hearty.
彼は80歳になったが、老いてますます丈夫になった。
3.She is remarkable and I 'dlike to see her remain hale and hearty for years yet.
彼女は体の調子がとてもいいので、彼女の体の骨がずっと丈夫であることを願っています。
4.Nathan Hale looked around as a British soldier put the rope around his neck.
イギリス兵が首に縄をかけたとき、ネイサン?ヘイルは周りを見た。
5."Why,I was just over there this afternoon--Mrs. Hale and I.