sluggard
英 ['slʌgəd]
美 ['slʌɡɚd]
語源
怠け者。ナメクジ、怠け者、ナマケモノ、-ard、人。
英語の語源
- sluggard (n.)
- late 14c., late 13c. as a surname, "habitually lazy person," from Middle English sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scandinavian word such as dialectal Norwegian slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norwegian sluggje "heavy, slow person," dialectal Swedish slogga "to be slow or sluggish." Adjective sluggy is attested in English from early 13c.
'Tis the voice of a sluggard -- I heard him complain:
"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
[Isaac Watts, 1674-1748]
'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
["Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson), 1832-1898]
As an adjective meaning "sluggish, lazy" from 1590s. Related: Sluggardly.
例文
- 1. Seryozhka is a sluggard ,a drunkard.
- 謝遼日卡は怠け者で、飲んべえだ.
- 2.We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature,the ant like a sluggard .
- 私たちはミツバチを怠惰に見せ、アリを怠け者のように見せる。dd>
中級百科部から
- 3.I will not,like a sluggard ,wear out my youth in idleness at home.
- 怠け者のように家にいて、ぶらぶらして私の青春をつぶしたくない.
- 4.Go to the ant,you sluggard ; watch its ways,and be wise.
- 箴言6:6-11)怠け者よ、アリの動きを見に行けば知恵が得られる。
- 5.Go to the ant,you sluggard ; consider her ways,and be wise.
- 怠け者よ、アリの動きを観察すれば知恵が得られる。
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