snag

• n. 障害物；予期せぬ障害物；突起物
• vt.機会をつかむ；障害を引き起こす；障害を取り除く
• vi.つまずかせる；障害物を形成する

古ノルド語のsnagi、物干し竿、吊り鉤から。snag、切り株、枝から派生し、後に川に沈んだ切り株、snagを指すのに使われ、そのため、潜在的な問題、困難、障害物という比喩的な意味が派生し、snagged、hooked、hung upなどから派生した。

snag (n.)

1570s, "stump of a tree, branch," of Scandinavian origin, compare Old Norse snagi "clothes peg," snaga "a kind of ax," snag-hyrndr "snag-cornered, with sharp points." The ground sense seems to be "a sharp protuberance." The meaning "sharp or jagged projection" is first recorded 1580s; especially "tree or branch in water and partly near the surface, so as to be dangerous to navigation" (1807). The figurative meaning "obstacle, impediment" is from 1829.

snag (v.)

"be caught on an impediment," 1807, from snag (n.). Originally in American English, often in reference to steamboats caught on branches and stumps lodged in riverbeds. Of fabric, from 1967. The transitive meaning "to catch, steal, pick up" is U.S. colloquial, attested from 1895. Related: Snagged; snagging.

1. There is just one small snag —where is the money coming from？

小さな問題が1つだけあります。お金はどこから来ますか。

2.The only snag is，I can 't afford it！

唯一の困難は、私はこのお金を払うことができません！

3.It is to be expected that an experiment will sometimes run into a snag at first.

試験開始時にうまくいかないことがあるし、自然なこともある。

4. The school deals exclusively with children of high academic ability. There is a snag though, it costs ￡9,600 a year.

この学校は学習能力の高い子供しか募集していないが、年間授業料が9600ポンドに達する小さな問題がある。

5.A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.

警察が車泥棒を取り締まる行動にちょっとした挫折を味わった：強盗がパトカーを盗んだ。