handsome
英 ['hæns(ə)m]
美 ['hænsəm]
- adj.(男)ハンサムな; 相当な; 寛大な; 寛大な; ふさわしく威厳のある
語源
器用な、ハンサムな、颯爽とした、寛大な形容詞の接尾辞であるhand、つまりhandy、convenient、-someに由来する。後にdexterous（器用な）、considerate（思いやりのある）、generous（寛大な）などから派生したが、主に颯爽とした、ハンサムな、本質的に温厚な男性を表すのに使われる。
英語の語源
- handsome
- handsome: see hand
- handsome (adj.)
- c. 1400, handsom "easy to handle, ready at hand," from hand (n.) + -some (1). Sense extended to "fit, appropriate" (1550s, implied in handsomely), then "having fine form, good-looking, agreeable to the eye" (1580s). Meaning "generous, on a liberal scale" (of rewards, etc.) first recorded 1680s.
[Americans] use the word "handsome" much more extensively than we do: saying that Webster made a handsome speech in the Senate: that a lady talks handsomely, (eloquently:) that a book sells handsomely. A gentleman asked me on the Catskill Mountain, whether I thought the sun handsomer there than at New York. [Harriet Martineau, "Society in America," 1837]
Related: Handsomeness. For sense development, compare pretty (adj.). Similar formation in Dutch handzaam "tractable, serviceable."
例文
- 1. The opposition won a handsome victory in the election.
- 反対党が党内選挙で高票で勝利した。
- 2.Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.
- トムはかっこいいお父さんにそっくりなところがありますが、若いだけです。
- 3.He was a slim，solemn，darkly handsome young man.
- 彼は体つきが長く、表情が重々しく、肌が真っ黒なハンサムな若者だ。
- 4.He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.
- 彼のハンサムさは放蕩なハンサムさだ。
- 5. "He used to be so handsome ." — "And now?「
- 「彼は昔はあんなにハンサムだった」——「では今は？」