speaker
英 ['spiːkə]
美 ['spikɚ]
- n. 話し手; 拡声器; 話し手; ある言語を話す人
- n.(話者)人名；(英)話者
語源
speaker スピーカーspeak、speak、-er、人。
英語の語源
- speaker (n.)
- c. 1300, "one who speaks," agent noun from speak (v.). Similar formation in Old Frisian spreker, Old High German sprahhari, German Sprecher. First applied to "person who presides over an assembly" c. 1400, from similar use in Anglo-French (late 14c.) in reference to the English Parliament; later extended to the U.S. House of Representatives, etc. The electric amplifier so called from 1926, short for loud-speaker.
例文
- 1. They 've found out where the other speaker plugs in.
- 彼らは別のスピーカーの接続点を見つけた。
- 2.For twenty minutes，the Speaker tried to keep order.
- 20分間、議長は秩序維持に尽力してきた。
- 3.Bruce Wyatt will be the guest speaker at next month 's meeting.
- ブルース?ワイアットが来月の会議の特別招待スポークスマンになる。
- 4.Mr. Speaker ，our message to the president is simple.
- 議長さん、私たちが大統領に伝えた意味はとても簡単です。
- 5.The first speaker began to talk，very fast and rather loudly.
- 最初の発言者が話し始めた。早口で、声がかなり大きい。