patch

• n. 眼帯；斑点；破片；塊
• vt.パッチをあてる；和らげる；覆い隠す
• vi.
• n. （パッチ）人名；（英）Patch

古フランス語のpiecheから。patchから派生したpieceの方言変化。bake、batchと比較。

patch

patch: see piece

patch (v.)

mid-15c., from patch (n.1). Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923. Related: Patched; patching.

patch (n.1)

"piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14c., of obscure origin, perhaps a variant of pece, pieche, from Old North French pieche (see piece (n.)), or from an unrecorded Old English word (but Old English had claeflyhte "a patch"). Phrase not a patch on "nowhere near as good as" is from 1860.

patch (n.2)

"fool, clown," 1540s, perhaps from Italian pazzo "fool," of unknown origin. Possibly from Old High German barzjan "to rave" [Klein]. But Buck says pazzo is originally euphemistic, and from Latin patiens "suffering," in medical use, "the patient." Form perhaps influenced by folk etymology derivation from patch (n.1), on notion of a fool's patched garb.

1. The company I work for went through a rough patch .

私の会社は困難な時期を経験しました。

2.He 's not a patch on the rest of the Cabinet.

彼は内閣の他のメンバーにははるかに及ばない。

3.They tried digging in a patch just below the cave.

洞窟直下の地面を掘ってみた。

4.There was a patch of waste land behind the church.

教会の後ろに荒れ地がある。

5.Handsome，she thought，but not a patch on Alex.

はかっこいい、と彼女は思ったが、アレックスとはかけ離れていた。