1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.
例文
1. He 's been on sabbatical writing a novel.
彼は休暇中に小説を書いていた。
2.to take a year 's sabbatical
1年間の公休を楽しむ
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3.He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow.
彼は教師の休暇年を使ってモスクワで研究をした。
4.Professor Robins is on sabbatical this year.
ロビンス教授は今年、休暇の年を過ごしている。
5.I 've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.