meagre
英 ['miːgə]
美
英語の語源
- meagre
- meagre: [14] Meagre originally meant literally ‘thin’ (it goes back via Anglo-Norman megre and Old French maigre to Latin macer ‘thin’, source also of English emaciate [17]). Not until the 16th century did the modern figurative sense ‘scanty’ begin to emerge. (Its distant Indo- European ancestor, incidentally, *makró-, also produced a parallel Germanic form mager ‘thin’, shared by German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish.)
=> emaciate - meagre (adj.)
- chiefly British English spelling of meager (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.
例文
- 1. The bank 's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1%pay rise.
- 銀行員は3.1%の昇給に怒っている。
- 2.The patient isn 't restricted to a meagre diet.
- この患者の食事制限はありません。
- 3.a meagre diet of bread and water
- パンと水だけの粗末なご飯
- 4.The diet should be suitable，being neither too rich nor too meagre .
- 食事は適切であるべきで、つまり脂っこくも太すぎても薄すぎてもいけない。
- 5.The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
- 公演を見る観客はわずかだった。
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