shrapnel

• n.榴散弾；破片；変化
• n.(榴散弾)人名;(英)Shrapnel

砲弾の発明者であり、後に榴散弾と呼ばれるようになった19世紀の英国人将軍ヘンリー?シュラプネルに由来する。

shrapnel

shrapnel: The term shrapnel commemorates the name of General Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), a British artillery officer who in the course of the Peninsular War, at the beginning of the 19th century, invented an exploding shell that sent bullets flying in all directions

shrapnel (n.)

1806, from Gen. Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), who invented a type of exploding, fragmenting shell when he was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery during the Peninsular War. The invention consisted of a hollow cannon ball, filled with shot, which burst in mid-air; his name for it was spherical case ammunition. Sense of "shell fragments" is first recorded 1940. The surname is attested from 13c., and is believed to be a metathesized form of Charbonnel, a diminutive form of Old French charbon "charcoal," in reference to complexion, hair color, or some other quality.

1. He was wounded in both legs and severely peppered with shrapnel .

彼は両足にペンキをかけ、人も雨のような弾片で重傷を負った。

2.The driver of an evacuation bus was wounded by shrapnel .

疎開バスの運転手が弾片で爆破された。

3.He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade.

手榴弾の弾片に撃たれた。

4.He was hit in the arm by flying shrapnel .

流れ弾片に腕を撃たれた。

5.The bomb exploded,sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.

爆弾が爆発し、弾片が森を吹き抜けた。