miracle
英 ['mɪrək(ə)l]
美 ['mɪrəkl]
- n. 奇跡、奇跡的な人または物；驚くべき例
- n.（奇跡の）人名；（英）Mirekel；（伊、仏）Miraclair
語源
奇跡ラテン語のmiraculum（不思議なもの、神の御技によるもの）、mirari（驚き、驚き）の語源、PIE*smei（笑う、驚嘆する）の語源、marvel（驚異）、mirror（鏡）、smile（微笑み）と同じ語源。
英語の語源
- miracle (n.)
- mid-12c., "a wondrous work of God," from Old French miracle (11c.) "miracle, story of a miracle, miracle play," from Latin miraculum "object of wonder" (in Church Latin, "marvelous event caused by God"), from mirari "to wonder at, marvel, be astonished," figuratively "to regard, esteem," from mirus "wonderful, astonishing, amazing," earlier *smeiros, from PIE *smei- "to smile, laugh" (cognates: Sanskrit smerah "smiling," Greek meidan "to smile," Old Church Slavonic smejo "to laugh;" see smile (v.)).
From mid-13c. as "extraordinary or remarkable feat," without regard to deity. Replaced Old English wundortacen, wundorweorc. The Greek words rendered as miracle in the English bibles were semeion "sign," teras "wonder," and dynamis "power," in Vulgate translated respectively as signum, prodigium, and virtus. The Latin word is the source of Spanish milagro, Italian miracolo.
例文
- 1. A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.
- 奇跡は不可能に見えるが、起こった。dd>
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dl> - 2.The 1981 budget was the springboard for an economic miracle .
- 1981年の予算は経済奇跡の出現を促した。
- 3.The Italian economic miracle has always been a mystery.
- イタリアの経済奇跡は謎のままだった。
- 4.If you consider him a miracle man，you 're overrating him.
- 彼が奇跡を起こすことができると思っているなら、あなたは彼を過大評価している。
- 5.These are the facts that explode their so-called economic miracle .
- これらは彼らのいわゆる経済的奇跡を粉砕するための事実である。