lunge: [18] ‘Length’ is the etymological notion underlying the word lunge. It comes ultimately from French allonger ‘lengthen’, a verb based on the adjective long ‘long’. Its fencing application derived, in French, from the idea of ‘extending one’s sword to strike a blow’. It was originally borrowed into English in the 17th century as allonge, but this was soon shortened to lunge.
lunge (n.)
1735, "a thrust with a sword," originally a fencing term, shortened from allonge, from French allonger "to extend, thrust," from Old French alongier "to lengthen, make long," from à "to" + Old French long, from Latin longus "long" (see long (adj.)).
lunge (v.)
1735 (implied in lunged), from lunge (n.). Sense of "to make a sudden forward rush" is from 1821. Related: Lunged; lunging.
例文
1. He made a lunge for the phone.
彼は電話に飛びかかった。
2.When he makes a lunge at you,run.
彼があなたに向かって走ってきたときは早く走ってください。
3.The attacker knocked on their door and made a lunge for Wendy when she answered.
悪党が彼らのドアを叩くと、ウェンディはドアを開けると彼女に飛びかかった。
4.The lunge had thrown him off-balance and he spun，trying to regain his centre of gravity.
前へのこの猛攻撃に彼は立ち上がれず、急いで向きを変えて重心を落ち着けようとした。
5.We sought to parry the charateristic Soviet lunge with fancy footwork.