horizon

• n. [空]地平線; 視野; 目線; スコープ

ギリシア語のhorizon kyklos（区切られた円、境界のある円）から。地平線、水平線、水平範囲から派生して、水平線を指すのに使われる。

horizon

horizon: [14] Etymologically, the horizon is simply a ‘line forming a boundary’. The word comes via Old French orizon and late Latin horīzōn from Greek horízōn, a derivative of the verb horīzein ‘divide, separate’ (source also of English aphorism [16], originally a ‘definition’). This in turn came from the noun hóros ‘boundary, limit’. Horizontal [16], which came either from French or directly from late Latin, originally meant simply ‘of the horizon’; it was not until the 17th century that it began to be used in its modern sense ‘flat, level’.
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horizon (n.)

late 14c., orisoun, from Old French orizon (14c., Modern French horizon), earlier orizonte (13c.), from Latin horizontem (nominative horizon), from Greek horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary." The h- was restored 17c. in imitation of Latin. Old English used eaggemearc ("eye-mark") for "limit of view, horizon."

1. She stared dreamily out of the small window at the blue horizon .

彼女は小さな窓の外の青い地平線をうっとりと見ていた。

2.Johnson 's smashing victory in 1964 changed the political horizon substantially.

1964年のジョンソンの大成功は政界に天地を覆すような変化をもたらした。

3.At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.

陸地は地平線で薄い灰になった。

4.Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon .

やがて彼らは地平線上のいくつかの小さな点になった。

5.There are glimmers of hope on the horizon .

もうすぐ希望の光が見えてくる。