jargon

• n. 専門用語、用語集；イエロー?ジルコン

フランス語のjargon、鳥のさえずり、話し声、ラテン語のgarrire、会話、オノマトペ、あいまいな話し声の模倣、garrulousと同じ語源から。

jargon (n.)

mid-14c., "unintelligible talk, gibberish; chattering, jabbering," from Old French jargon "a chattering" (of birds), also "language, speech," especially "idle talk; thieves' Latin." Ultimately of echoic origin (compare Latin garrire "to chatter," English gargle). Often applied to something the speaker does not understand, hence meaning "mode of speech full of unfamiliar terms" (1650s). Middle English also had it as a verb, jargounen "to chatter" (late 14c.), from French.

1. APEC seems be drowning in an ocean of jargon .

アジア太平洋経済協力会議は空虚なでたらめの山に埋もれているようだ。

2.Their jargon is impenetrable to an outsider.

彼らの言葉は他人には分からない。

3.The jargon in his talk was opaque to me.

彼の会話で使われている言葉は私にとって霧のようなものだった。

4.He spoke such a jargon I couldn 't make head or tail of what he said.

彼がそんな方言の土語を話すなんて、私には何を言っているのかさっぱり分からない。

5.The only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.

待合室にある唯一の雑誌は用語だらけの科学ジャーナルで、私には読めません。