sceptic
英 ['skeptɪk]
美
英語の語源
- sceptic
- sceptic: [16] The Greek verb sképtesthai meant ‘examine, consider’ (it was descended from a base *skep- which was related to *skop-, source of English scope, and may have been a reversed version of *spek-, from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc). From it was derived the adjective skeptikós, which was applied to various schools of philosophy (particularly that of Pyrrho of Elis) which stressed the need for careful examination of a proposition, starting from an attitude of doubt, before accepting it.
The word passed via Latin scepticus and French sceptique into English as sceptic, by which time it had acquired broader connotations of ‘initial doubt’.
=> scope - sceptic (n.)
- chiefly British English spelling of skeptic (q.v.). Related: Sceptical; sceptically; scepticism.
例文
- 1. You may be a sceptic and put it down to life 's inequalities.
- あなたは懐疑論者かもしれませんが、それを生活の不公正さのせいにします。
- 2.He was a born sceptic .
- 彼は生まれつき疑い深い。
- 3.Arriving in Egypt，Frederick met the sultan，a fellow sceptic in religious questions.
- エジプトに到着後、フェデレルは宗教懐疑論者仲間のスーダンを表敬訪問した。
- 4.Perhaps he is a climate sceptic -I have no idea.
- 気候変動疑惑論者かもしれない--私も知らない。
- 5.The empirical sceptic appropriately responds：how do you know？
- 経験主義の懐疑者は適切な反応をすることができます：あなたはどのように知っていますか？