英単語

heavyの意味・使い方・発音

heavy

英 ['hevɪ] 美 ['hɛvi]
  • adj. 重い; 負担のかかる; 巨大な; 陰気な
  • n. 重い; 重大な性格
  • adv.重い; 手に負えない

語源


重い

古英語のhefig「硬い、重い」から。語源はPIE*kap「つかむ、つかむ」。

英語の語源


heavy
heavy: [OE] From the prehistoric Germanic verb *khabjan ‘lift’ was derived the noun *khabiz ‘weight’. This in turn was the source of the adjective *khabiga- ‘weighty’, from which have come Dutch hevig and English heavy (the other Germanic languages once had related forms, but have long since abandoned them in favour of other ways of expressing ‘heaviness’).
=> heave
heavy (adj.)
Old English hefig "heavy, having much weight; important, grave; oppressive; slow, dull," from Proto-Germanic *hafiga "containing something; having weight" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German hebig, Old Norse hofugr, Middle Dutch hevich, Dutch hevig), from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Jazz slang sense of "profound, serious" is from 1937 but would have been comprehensible to an Anglo-Saxon. Heavy industry recorded from 1932. Heavy metal attested by 1839 in chemistry; in nautical jargon from at least 1744 in sense "large-caliber guns on a ship."
While we undervalue the nicely-balanced weight of broadsides which have lately been brought forward with all the grave precision of Cocker, we are well aware of the decided advantages of heavy metal. ["United Services Journal," London, 1830]
As a type of rock music, from 1972.
heavy (n.)
mid-13c., "something heavy; heaviness," from heavy (adj.). Theatrical sense of "villain" is 1880.

例文


1. I don 't want any more of that heavy stuff.
二度とそんな面倒なことには触れたくない。

2.The outside air was heavy and moist and sultry.
外の空気は沈滞し、湿って蒸し暑い。

3.I slowly zipped and locked the heavy black nylon bags.
重い黒いナイロン袋のファスナーをゆっくりと閉めてロックします。

4.The city has been flattened by heavy artillery bombardments.
都市は猛烈な砲火で平地になった。

5.There was a heavy thudding noise against the bedroom door.
寝室のドアから重い衝撃音がした。

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