prostrate
英 ['prɒstreɪt]
美 ['prɑstret]
- adj.ひれ伏す；屈服させる；意気消沈させる
- vt.屈服させる；屈服させる；ひれ伏させる
語源
prostrate(プロストラート).ラテン語のprostratus「ひれ伏す」から、prosternere「ひれ伏す」、pro-「前へ」、sternere「広げる」、「開く」、語源的にはstratum「構造」と同じ。
英語の語源
- prostrate
- prostrate: see strata
- prostrate (adj.)
- mid-14c., "lying face-down" (in submission, worship, etc.), from Latin prostratus, past participle of prosternere "strew in front, throw down," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + sternere "to spread out," from PIE root *stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see structure (n.)). Figurative use from 1590s. General sense of "laid out, knocked flat" is from 1670s.
- prostrate (v.)
- early 15c., prostraten, "prostrate oneself," from prostrate (adj.). Related: Prostrated; prostrating.
例文
- 1. Immediately after my father 's death my stepmother was prostrate .
- 私の父が死んだ後、私の継母はすぐに崩れてしまった。
- 2.Percy was lying prostrate ，his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
- パーシーは目を閉じて四方八方に横たわっている。
- 3.I was prostrate with grief.
- 私は当時、生きたいほど痛かった。
- 4.They fell prostrate in worship.
- 彼らは地面にひれ伏した。
- 5.She was prostrate on the floor.
- 彼女は床にうつぶせになっていた。
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