sober
英 ['səʊbə]
美 ['sobɚ]
- adj.冷静な、しらふの；酔っていない
- vt. 真面目にする; 酔いをさます、しらふにする
- n. （地味な）人の名前；（英）Sobel
英語の語源
- sober
- sober: [13] Sober comes via Old French sobre from Latin sōbrius ‘not drunk’. This was the opposite of ēbrius ‘drunk’ (source of French ivre ‘drunk’ and English inebriate [15]), but where ēbrius came from, and precisely what connection the presumably related sōbrius has with it, are not known.
=> inebriate - sober (v.)
- late 14c., "reduce to a quiet condition" (transitive), from sober (adj.). Meaning "render grave or serious" is from 1726. Intransitive sense of "become sober" (since 1847 often with up) is from 1820. Related: Sobered; sobering.
- sober (adj.)
- mid-14c., "moderate in desires or actions, temperate, restrained," especially "abstaining from strong drink," also "calm, quiet, not overcome by emotion," from Old French sobre "decent; sober" (12c.), from Latin sobrius "not drunk, temperate, moderate, sensible," from a variant of se- "without" (see se-) + ebrius "drunk," of unknown origin. Meaning "not drunk at the moment" is from late 14c.; also "appropriately solemn, serious, not giddy." Related: Soberly; soberness. Sobersides "sedate, serious-minded person" is recorded from 1705.
例文
- 1. He was left to sober up in a police cell.
- 彼は留置室に残されて酔いを覚まされた。
- 2.When Dad was sober he was a good father.
- 酔っ払っていないとき、お父さんは良いお父さんです。
- 3.These pressures come not from unthinking lawyer-bashers，but from sober legal reformers.
- これらの圧力は、弁護士に不満を抱く軽率な人ではなく、冷静な司法改革家から来ている。
- 4.We are now far more sober and realistic.
- 私たちは今、目が覚め、現実が多くなっています。
- 5.I need you sane and sober .
- 目を覚まして冷静になってください。