hulk

• n. 巨大な船；扱いにくい船；船体
• vi.巨像のように見える；目立つように見える

古英語のhulc, fast shipから、中英語ではfast shipからlumbering slow shipへと進化し、最終的にはギリシャ語のholkas, merchant ship, slender man pulling a shipから、PIE*selk, to pull, dragから、語源はsulcusと同じ。語源はbehemoth。

hulk (n.)

Old English hulc "light, fast ship" (but in Middle English a heavy, unwieldy one), probably from Old Dutch hulke and Medieval Latin hulcus, perhaps ultimately from Greek holkas "merchant ship," literally "ship that is towed," from helkein "to pull" (from PIE root *selk- "to pull, draw"). Meaning "body of an old, worn-out ship" is first recorded 1670s. The Hulks ("Great Expectations") were old ships used as prisons. Sense of "big, clumsy person" is first recorded c. 1400 (early 14c. as a surname: Stephen le Hulke).

HULK. In the sixteenth century the large merchantman of the northern nations. As she grew obsolete, her name was applied in derision to all crank vessels, until it came to be degraded to its present use, i.e., any old vessel unfit for further employment. [Geoffrey Callender, "Sea Passages," 1943]

hulk (v.)

"to be clumsy, unwieldy, lazy," 1789, from hulk (n.). Related: Hulked; hulking.

1. I followed his big hulk into the house.

私は彼のたくましい体の後ろについて部屋に入った。

2.the hulk of a wrecked ship

遭難船の残骸

3.At this rate，he would one day become an empty hulk .

このまま生きていけば、彼はいつか骨の幹の棚になるだろうか、それともこんなに大きくて、穴の中は空だらけだ。

4.I could make out the gutted hulk of the tanker.

タンカーのぼろぼろな残骸を見分けることができます。

5.Great waves formed and spread as the hulk rose to the surface.

この巨大で重たい船が水面に露出すると、水面は巨大な波を浮かべて四方に散った。