英単語

purblindの意味・使い方・発音

purblind

英 ['pɜːblaɪnd] 美 ['pɝ,blaɪnd]
  • adj.半盲;鈍い;眠い目
  • vt.半盲にする

英語の語源


purblind (adj.)
c. 1300, pur blind "entirely blind," as a noun, "a blind person," later "partially blind, blind in one eye" (late 14c.), the main modern sense, from blind (adj.). The first element is sometimes explained as pure (adj.), or as the Anglo-French perfective prefix pur- (see pur-). Sense of "dull" first recorded 1530s.

例文


1. If an administrator has no access to information,it 's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
管理作業をしている人には情報がありません。鼻が通じない、耳目が利かない。

2.Ultimately,the most purblind of lenders come to their senses.
最終的に、最も鈍い銀行が意識を取り戻した。

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