juggernaut

• n. 世界の支配者；強力な破壊力

ヒンディー語のJagannath、宇宙の主、インドの主神ヴィシュヌの敬称、サンスクリット語のjagat、世界、宇宙、natha、主、神から。もともとは、インドのオリッサ州プリー地方で行われていた宗教的なお祭りのことで、人々はジャガンナート神の巨大な像を巨大な荷車に乗せ、車輪の大きな慣性のためにそれを引っ張って寺院から寺院へと移動していた。車輪の慣性力が大きいため、人々はしばしば命を落とし、敬虔な人々でさえ自ら車輪の下に身を投げて圧死する。それゆえ、大いなる力、制御不能な力強い肉体を意味する語源となった。西ベンガル州の宗教的なお祭りであるドゥルガ?プージャーと比較してみよう。

juggernaut

juggernaut: [17] Hindi Jagganath is a title of Krishna, one of the avatars, or incarnations, of the god Vishnu, the Preserver. It comes from Sanskrit Jagganātha, a compound of jagat- ‘world’ and nāthás ‘lord’. It is applied also to a large wagon on which an image of the god is carried in procession (notably in an annual festival in Puri, a town in the northeastern Indian state of Orissa).

It used to be said, apocryphally, that worshippers of Krishna threw themselves under the wheels of the wagon in an access of religious ecstasy, and so juggernaut came to be used metaphorically in English for an ‘irresistible crushing force’: ‘A neighbouring people were crushed beneath the worse than Jaggernaut car of wild and fierce democracy’, J W Warter, Last of the Old Squires 1854.

The current application to large heavy lorries is prefigured as long ago as 1841 in William Thackeray’s Second Funeral of Napoleon (‘Fancy, then, the body landed at day-break and transferred to the car; and fancy the car, a huge Juggernaut of a machine’); but it did not become firmly established until the late 1960s.

juggernaut (n.)

1630s, "huge wagon bearing an image of the god Krishna," especially that at the town of Puri, drawn annually in procession in which (apocryphally) devotees allowed themselves to be crushed under its wheels in sacrifice. Altered from Jaggernaut, a title of Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), from Hindi Jagannath, literally "lord of the world," from Sanskrit jagat "world" (literally "moving," present participle of *jagati "he goes," from PIE *gwa- "to go, come" (see come (v.)) + natha-s "lord, master," from nathate "he helps, protects," from PIE *na- "to help." The first European description of the festival is by Friar Odoric (c. 1321). Figurative sense of "anything that demands blind devotion or merciless sacrifice" is from 1854.

1. The group became a sales juggenaut in the commodity options business.

このグループは商品オプション取引市場の販売大手となった。

2.The Juggernaut Firepower at Heroic Level is something to be noted.

英雄級神像の火力については特に言及する必要がある。

3.Clinton lost her last major opportunity to stop the Obama juggenaut .

クリントン氏の戦績は、オハイオ州での勝利をほぼ相殺した。

4.Poppy：Oh no there 's a juggenaut 、get down！

ポピー：おお、いや、そこに神像があるから、降りて！

5. Juggernaut ：Bacis weapon attack power against vehicles reduced by 25%.Bombardment ability wasn 't affected.

神像機甲：車両へのダメージは25%減少したが、砲撃技能の威力は変わらなかった。