Old English sceaf (plural sceafas) "large bundle of corn," from Proto-Germanic *skauf- (cognates: Old Saxon scof, Middle Dutch scoof, Dutch schoof, Old High German scoub "sheaf, bundle," German Schaub "sheaf;" Old Norse skauf "fox's tail;" Gothic skuft "hair on the head," German Schopf "tuft"), from PIE root *(s)keup- "cluster, tuft, hair of the head." Extended to bundles of things other than grain by c. 1300. Also used in Middle English for "two dozen arrows." General sense of "a collection" is from 1728.
例文
1. He took out a sheaf of papers and leafed through them.
彼は新聞を取り出して、急いでめくった。
2.She moved the sheaf of papers into position.
彼女はその新聞の束を適切な場所に移した。
3.The speaker came into the hall carrying a sheaf of notes.
講演者はメモを持ってロビーに入った。
4.This essentially implies that the presheaf is a sheaf .
これには、プレレイヤが実質的に1つのレイヤであることが含まれています。
5.He drew a sheaf of papers from his breast pocket.