stalemate
英 ['steɪlmeɪt]
美 ['stelmet]
- n. 行き詰まる；ジレンマに陥る
- vt.行き詰まる；行き詰まらせる
- vi. 行き詰まらせる；行き詰まらせる
語源
膠着状態 stalemate古語のstale、fixed、stalemated、mate、kill、general、語源はcheckmateと同じ。
英語の語源
- stalemate
- stalemate: [18] Stalemate is a compound noun, based on the now obsolete stale ‘stalemate’. And this in turn was probably borrowed from Anglo- Norman estale ‘fixed position’, a derivative of Old French estaler ‘halt’, which also underlies English stale and stall. So etymologically, when you reach stalemate in chess, you have to ‘stand’ or ‘halt’ where you are, going neither forward nor back.
- stalemate (n.)
- 1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885. As a verb from 1765; figurative from 1861.
例文
- 1. Efforts to break the stalemate in the peace talks continue.
- 和平交渉の行き詰まりを打破する努力は続いている。dd>
- 2.Discussions are locked in stalemate .
- 議論は行き詰まりました。
- 3.The stalemate in the trade talks continues.
- 貿易交渉の硬直は続いている。
- 4.The war was at a stalemate .
- 戦争は相対峙する段階にある。
- 5.The fight resulted in a stalemate .
- 戦闘は対峙局面を形成する.
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