英単語

healthyの意味・使い方・発音

healthy

英 ['helθɪ] 美 ['hɛlθi]
  • adj.健康な、健全な;健康に資する

英語の語源


healthy (adj.)
1550s, "being in a sound state;" also "conducive to health," from health + -y (2). Earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthily; healthiness.
It is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839]
Healthsome is from 1530s in the sense "bestowing health."

例文


1. The birth of a live healthy baby is a truly blessed event.
健康で活発な赤ちゃんが生まれたことは喜ばしいことだ。

2.Was it just a temporary blip on an otherwise healthy growth curve?
これは本来良好な成長曲線における一時的なずれではないでしょうか。

3.The film opened to healthy box office receipts before rapidly falling off.
この映画の興行収入は最初は上昇し続けたが、その後急激に低下した。

4.Give yourself a healthy glow on our detox diet.
私たちの解毒レシピはあなたを輝かせます。

5.My department had a healthy interest in keeping expenses down.
私の部門は低レベルの支出を維持することに興味があります。

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