late 15c., from Middle French mobile (14c.), from Latin mobilis "movable, easy to move; loose, not firm," figuratively, "pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle," contraction of *movibilis, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sociology sense from 1927. Mobile home first recorded 1940.
Mobile
city in Alabama, U.S., attested c. 1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.
mobile (n.)
early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).
例文
1. In the summer her mobile home heats up like an oven.
夏になると、彼女の移動住宅はオーブンのように暑くなる。
2.Most mobile robots are still in the design stage.
ほとんどのモバイルロボットは設計段階にあります。
3.The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
同党は、より高い社会的地位を求める有権者を引き付けることができなかった。
4.The mobile phone business was actually his bread and butter.
携帯電話事業は実際には彼の本業である。
5.There has been consistent growth in GSM mobile subscribers.