niggard
英 ['nɪgəd]
美 ['nɪgɚd]
- adj.ケチ; みすぼらしい
- n. ケチ
- vt.意地悪に振る舞う
- vi. 意地悪に扱う
英語の語源
- niggard (n.)
- "mean person, miser," late 14c., nygart, of uncertain origin. The suffix suggests French origin (see -ard), but the root word is possibly from earlier nig "stingy" (c. 1300), perhaps from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse hn?ggr "stingy," from Proto-Germanic *khnauwjaz (source of Swedish njugg "close, careful," German genau "precise, exact"), and to Old English hneaw "stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in Middle English.
例文
- 1. Don 't expect that niggard to invite you to dinner.
- あのけちんぼうがあなたに食事をごちそうするとは期待しないで。
- 2.The niggard contributed little to them.
- このけちん坊はほとんど彼らにお金を寄付していない。
- 3.Never have we seen such a niggard like him！
- 彼のようなけちな人を私たちはいつ見たことがありますか？
- 4.Nature is prodigal in variety，but niggard in innovation.
- 自然界は変化に富んでいるが革新にはけちだ。
- 5.What magnanimous is not the Dao but the man.A niggard cannot do it.
- 言葉は虚栄の印であることが多い。言葉で気前が良すぎる人は仕事をする上でけちだからだ。
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