Old English scrift "confession to priest, followed by penance and absolution," verbal noun from scrifan "to impose penance," from an early Germanic borrowing of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)) that produced nouns for "penance, confession" in Old English and Scandinavian (such as Old Norse skrjpt "penance, confession"), but elsewhere in Germanic is used in senses "writing, scripture, alphabet letter;" see shrive. Short shrift originally was the brief time for a condemned criminal to confess before execution (1590s); figurative extension to "little or no consideration" is first attested 1814.
例文
1. The idea has been given short shrift by philosophers.
哲学者たちはあまり注目していない。
2.He gave short shrift to criticisms of Government policy.
政府政策に対する人々の批判には関心がない。
3.All idle talk wasted our time and we should give It 'short shrift .
すべての雑談は私たちの時間と私たちはそれに短い懺悔時間を与える。
4.These annoying memos will get short shrift from the boss.
ボスはこれらの嫌なメモに真剣に対応しません。
5.He is man condemned to a short shrift by his doctor.