scout

• n. 捜索、偵察; 偵察機; 偵察機
• vt. 偵察；追跡；監視；発見
• vi. 偵察する；巡回する；嘲笑する

古フランス語のescouter「耳を傾ける、注意を払う」から。ラテン語のauscultare「耳を傾ける、注意を払う」に由来し、aus-「耳」、語源的にはearと同じ、audit、-cul「傾斜」、語源的にはincline「傾斜」、auscultateと同じ。

ボーイスカウト（Boy Scout）から略され、中国の青年開拓団に似た子供のための会員組織。

scout

scout: [14] Etymologically, a scout is someone who ‘listens’. For the word goes back ultimately to Latin auscultāre ‘listen’, a derivative of the same base that produced Latin auris ‘ear’ (source of English aural [19] and distantly related to English ear). This passed into Old French as escouter ‘listen’ (its modern descendant is écouter), which English adopted as the verb scout, meaning ‘look about, spy’. The noun, from the French derivative escoute, followed in the 15th century.
=> aural, ear

scout (v.1)

late 14c., "observe or explore as a scout, travel in search of information," from Old French escouter "to listen, heed" (Modern French écouter), from Latin auscultare "to listen to, give heed to" (see auscultate). Related: Scouted; scouting.

scout (v.2)

"to reject with scorn," 1710, earlier "to mock" (c. 1600), of Scandinavian origin (compare Old Norse skuta, skute "to taunt"), probably from a source related to shout (v.). Related: Scouted; scouting; scoutingly.

scout (n.)

"person who scouts, one sent out to gain information," 1550s, from scout (v.1). Boy Scout is from 1908. Scout's honor attested from 1908.

1. Their mission is simply to scout out places where helicopters can land.

彼らの任務はヘリコプターを着陸させることができる場所を見つけることだけだ。

2.He wore the garb of a scout ，not a general.

将軍の制服ではなくボーイスカウトの制服を着ている。

3.The scout opposed his arm to the blow of the enemy soldier.

偵察兵は腕で敵兵の打撃を遮った。

4.He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.

敵の偵察兵と間違えられ、重傷を負った。

5.The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.

偵察兵は敵陣に忍び寄る。