英単語

self-consciousの意味・使い方・発音

self-conscious

英 ['self'kɔnʃəs] 美
  • adj.意識的

英語の語源


self-conscious (adj.)
1680s, "aware of one's action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.

例文


1. He has never exhibited the self -confidence,bordering on arrogance,of his predecessor.
彼は前任者のような傲慢に近い自信を示したことがない。

2.She has now changed into a happy, self -confident woman.
今では彼女は幸せで自信のある女性になっている。

3.He is being treated for a self ?inficted gunshot wound.
彼は発砲による自傷傷で治療を受けている。

4.She summoned up all her pity for him,to smother her self -pity.
彼女は心の中の自分の憐れみを抑え、慈悲の気持ちを彼に注いだ。

5.He won the election because the Democrats self -destructed in their primary.
民主党は初選挙で万里の長城を自壊したので、選挙に勝った。

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