lengthy

• 冗長

長さ、長さから、lengthyの派生。

lengthy (adj.)

1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c. 1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism.

This word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]

Related: Lengthily; lengthiness.

1. No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.

ヒトを除くすべての哺乳類がこの国に入るには長期的な隔離が必要です。

2.There is a lengthy article on Spike Milligan in the Observer newspaper.

『オブザーバー紙』にスパイク?ミリガンに関する長文記事が掲載されている。

3.Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.

ゲイツ氏は、配備戦略に関する鴻の大論で応えた。

4.This is not the place for a lengthy discusion.

今は議論が尽きない時ではありません。

5.The last stop in Mr Cook 's lengthy tour was Paris.

クックさんの長い旅の最後はパリです。