skyscraper
英 ['skaɪskreɪpə]
美 ['skaɪ'skrepɚ]
英語の語源
- skyscraper (n.)
- very tall urban building, 1888, in a Chicago context, from sky (n.) + agent noun of scrape (v.). Used earlier for "ornament atop a building" (1883), "very tall man" (1857), "high-flying bird" (1840), "light sail at the top of a mast" (1794), and the name of a racehorse (1789). Compare cognate French gratte-ciel, from gratter "to scrape" + ciel "sky;" German Wolkenkratzer, from Wolke "cloud" + Kratzer "scraper."
cloud-cleaver, an imaginary sail jokingly assumed to be carried by Yankee ships. [W. Clark Russell, "Sailors' Word Book," 1883]
例文
- 1. A skyscraper has been erected.
- 摩天楼が地べたを抜いて立ち上がった。 skyscraper has been erected.
- 2.The skyscraper towers into the clouds.
- その摩天楼は雲の上にそびえ立っている。
- 3.With an elevator in the skyscraper ，we can easily go up and down.
- 摩天楼にエレベーターがあり、乗り降りが便利です。
- 4.The first modern-style skyscraper rose a stubby ten stories above Chicago 's streets.
- 初めてのモダンな摩天楼がシカゴの通りでずんぐりした10階建てに上昇した。
- 5.Soon I was steped into the plush comfort of a skyscraper office.
- しばらくして、摩天楼の中の極めて快適なオフィスに足を踏み入れた。
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