humour
英 ['hjuːmə]
美
- n. ユーモア；機知
- vt.便宜を図る；満足させる
英語の語源
- humour
- humour: [14] Latin hūmēre meant ‘be moist’ (from it was derived hūmidus, source of English humid [16]). And related to it was the noun hūmor, which signified originally simply ‘liquid’. In due course it came to be applied specifically to any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile) whose combinations according to medieval theories of physiology determined a person’s general health and temperament.
This was the sense in which English acquired the word, via Anglo-Norman humour, and it gradually developed in meaning via ‘mental disposition at a particular time, mood’ and ‘inclination, whim’ to, in the late 17th century, the main modern sense ‘funniness’.
=> humid - humour
- chiefly British English spelling of humor; see -or. Related: Humourous; humourist.
例文
- 1. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.
- 彼の作品は皮肉なユーモアを持っている。
- 2.Sharon tells the story of that night with self-deprecating humour .
- シャロンはユーモアたっぷりに自嘲的にその夜の物語を語った。
- 3.Hugo bore his illness with great courage and good humour .
- ユーゴーは大きな勇気と良好な精神状態で病気に直面している。
- 4.This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour .
- この現代風コメディは、悲哀の情と辛辣なユーモアを織り込んでいる。
- 5.This book is suffused with Shaw 's characteristic wry Irish humour .
- この本はバーナード?ショー独特のアイルランド流ユーモアと皮肉に満ちている。