ratherの意味・使い方・発音

rather

英 ['rɑːðə] 美 ['ræðɚ]

むしろ, むしろ, 比較的

rathe, early, eager, -er, 比較接尾辞から。すなわち、より早く、より速く、派生した副詞的意味 rather, rather, comparatively.

rather: rather: [OE] Rather originated as the comparative form of the now obsolete adjective rathe ‘quick’, and so to begin with meant ‘more quickly’, hence ‘earlier, sooner’. Its most frequent modern meaning, ‘more willingly’, emerged as recently as the 16th century. Rathe itself went back to a prehistoric Germanic *khrathaz, which may have been derived from the same base as produced English rash ‘impetuous’.
=> rash
rather (adv.): Old English hrator "more quickly, earlier, sooner," also "more readily," comparative of hrate, hr?te "quickly, hastily, promptly, readily, immediately," which is related to hr?e "quick, nimble, prompt, ready," from Proto-Germanic *khratha- (cognates: Old Norse hraer, Old High German hrad), from PIE *kret- "to shake." The base form rathe was obsolete by 18c. except in poetry (Tennyson); superlative rathest fell from use by 17c. Meaning "more willingly" is recorded from c. 1300; sense of "more truly" is attested from late 14c.
The rather lambes bene starved with cold
[Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender" (Februarie), 1579]

1. Rather taken aback by such forwardness，I slammed down the phone.: こんな無礼な言葉に腹を立てて、私はどんと電話を切った。

2.The process is not a circle but rather a spiral.: このプロセスは円周運動ではなく螺旋上昇型である。

3.I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.: だんだん、大学の体制全体に失望してきました。

4.She was in rather a bad film about the Mau Mau.: 彼女は茅茅運動（1950年代ケニアのキクーユ人がイギリス植民地に抵抗したナショナリズム運動）に関する腐った映画に出演した。