manoeuvre: [18] Essentially manoeuvre and manure [14] are the same word. Both go back ultimately to a Latin expression denoting ‘manual labour’. This was manū operārī, literally ‘work with the hand’. It was lexicalized in medieval Latin as the verb manuoperāre, and this passed into Old French as manovrer. Middle English took it over via Anglo-Norman mainoverer as maynoyre or manour, which at first was used for ‘administer land’, and more specifically ‘cultivate land’.
Not until the mid 16th century did the noun manure, denoting ‘dung spread in cultivating the land’, emerge. Meanwhile Old French manovrer developed into modern French manoeuvrer, which English borrowed in the 18th century. => manual, manure, operate
manoeuvre
also manoeuver, alternative spelling of maneuver. Also see oe; -re. Related: manoeuvres; manoeuvred; manoeuvring.
例文
1. With an election looming,he has little room for manoeuvre .
大統領選挙が近づくにつれて、彼はほとんど旋回する余地がなくなった。/
2.We attempted to manoeuvre the canoe closer to him.
カヌーを近づけようとした。
3.Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre .
一部のアナリストは、彼のこの政治的行動は優れていると考えている。
4.The clutter of ships had little room to manoeuvre .
船は縦横無尽に押し合い、移動するスペースはほとんどありません。
5.Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre .