sop: [OE] The word sop originally denoted a ‘piece of bread, cake, etc dipped into water, milk, wine, or similar liquid’. The modern metaphorical meaning ‘something given to gain favour, bribe’ did not emerge until the mid-17th century, in allusion to the piece of bread soaked in enticing honey but spiked with a soporific drug that was given to the guard dog Cerberus to put him to sleep so that Aeneas could visit the Underworld.
The word goes back ultimately to the same prehistoric Germanic base (*sup-) that produced English sip and sup ‘drink’, and also, via the Romance languages, soup and supper. The corresponding verb sop ‘dip in liquid’ now survives only in the present participial form sopping ‘soaking wet’ [19]. => sip, soup, sup, supper
sop (n.)
Old English sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from Proto-Germanic *supp-, related to Old English verb suppan (see sup (v.2)), probably reinforced by Old French soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from 1660s, a reference to the sops given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in the "Aeneid."
sop (v.)
Old English soppian, from the source of sop (n.). Related: Sopped; sopping.
例文
1. This is an obvious sop to the large Irish-American audience.
これは明らかに多くのアイルランド系アメリカ人視聴者を喜ばせる手段である。
2.The 82.5%of patients with acquired SOP were accompanied with diplopia.
5%後天性 sop 者は明らかに自覚的に複視している。
3.This approval process should be addressed in the firm 's SOP .
承認プロセスは、会社の SOP に記述されているはずです。
4.Provide SOP electric training for electrician and relative person from other department.
電気技師およびその他の部門の人員に電気的な SOP トレーニングを行う。
5.Directs and supervises production process to align with SOP .