英単語

ofの意味・使い方・発音

of

英 [ɒv; (ə)v] 美 [əv]
  • に関する前置詞;に属する;の;から成る

語源


の, で, いつ

古英語のofから、原ゲルマン語*afから、PIE*apo, to leaveから、接頭辞ab-, apo-, apogeeと語源的には同じ。

英語の語源


of
of: [OE] Of has an ancient ancestry, going back to the prehistoric Indo-European preposition of ‘removal’ or ‘origin’, *ap. Its Germanic descendant was *ab, source of modern German ab (now only an adverb, meaning ‘away’), Dutch af, Swedish av, and English of. Latin ab ‘from’ (as in English abduct, abject, etc) also came from Indo-European *ap.
=> off
of (prep.)
Old English of, unstressed form of ?f (prep., adv.) "away, away from," from Proto-Germanic *af (cognates: Old Norse af, Old Frisian af, of "of," Dutch af "off, down," German ab "off, from, down"), from PIE *apo- "off, away" (see apo-). Primary sense in Old English still was "away," but shifted in Middle English with use of the word to translate Latin de, ex, and especially Old French de, which had come to be the substitute for the genitive case. "Of shares with another word of the same length, as, the evil glory of being accessory to more crimes against grammar than any other." [Fowler]

Also from 1837 a non-standard or dialectal representation of have as pronounced in unstressed positions (could of, must of, etc.)

例文


1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get,there 's always something new to learn about.After all,life is full of surprises.
どこに住んでいても、あなたは何歳になっても、いつも新しいことを学ぶ必要があります。結局、生活はいつも驚きに満ちています。

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2.Generosity is its own form of power.
気前の良い力を過小評価するな。
米ドラマ『カルタハウス』


3.Instead of complaining about what 's wrong,be grateful for what 's right.
悪いことに文句を言わないで、良いことに感謝してください。

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4.When life gets hard and you want to give up,remember that life is full of ups and downs,and without the downs,the ups would mean nothing.
生活が苦しくて、諦めたいときは、生活は浮き沈みに満ちていて、谷がなければ高いところに立っても意味がないことを覚えておいてください。


5から.The happiest are not those who own all the best things,but those who can appreciate the beauty of life.
最も幸せな人々は必ずしも何も最高ではありません。ただ、彼らは生活の素晴らしさを楽しむことを知っています。

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