streak

• n. 縞、線、傾向
• vi. 走る、疾走する；筋を引く
• vt. 走る、疾走する；縞模様を描く

古英語のstrica, streak, line, strokeから、原語ゲルマン語*strikon, to touch lightly, to strike lightlyから、PIE*streig, to strike, beat, scrapeから、語源的にはstrike, strokeと同じ。

古英語のstreccanから。 語源 Naked Runningは短編小説に由来する。1973年、アメリカのメリーランド大学で突然、裸で走る数百人の人々が現れ、たまたまその光景を見た記者が興奮気味にこう叫んだ。It's an incredible sight." 原意は "They are streaking past me right now.It's an incredible sight." であったが、その後、この報道が放送されるに伴い、"streaking" という単語が意識的あるいは無意識的に "running naked" という意味を持つようになった。ウィキペディアを参照。

streak

streak: [OE] Streak and strike are closely related. Both come from a prehistoric Germanic base *strik-, denoting ‘touch lightly’. But whereas the connotations of strike have become more violent, streak has moved semantically from the action to the effect it produced on a surface. Originally, in the Old English period, it denoted simply a ‘mark’, but by the 16th century it had narrowed down to a long thin mark. The use of the verb streak for ‘run naked through a public place’ dates from the early 1970s.
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streak (n.)

Old English strica "line of motion, stroke of a pen" (related to strican "pass over lightly"), from Proto-Germanic *strikon- (cognates: Middle Dutch streke, Dutch streek, Middle Low German streke "a stroke, line," Old High German, German strich, Gothic striks "a stroke, line"), from PIE root *streig- "to stroke, rub, press" (see strigil; also strike (v.), stroke (v.)). Sense of "long, thin mark" is first found 1560s. Meaning "a temporary run (of luck)" is from 1843.

streak (v.2)

1768, "to go quickly, to rush, run at full speed," respelling (probably by association with streak (v.1)) of streek "to go quickly" (late 14c.), originally "to stretch oneself" (mid-13c.), a northern Middle English variant of stretch (v.). Related: Streaked; streaking.

streak (v.1)

"make streaks on" (transitive), 1590s, from streak (n.). Intransitive sense of "become streaked" is from 1870. Related: Streaked; streaking.

1. He had the ruthless streak necessary to carry him into the Cabinet.

彼は入閣に必要な冷酷な性格を持っている。

2.A violent streak of pain ripped through her whole body.

激しい痛みが全身に伝わった。

3.Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.

ポールには清教徒気質があるに違いない。

4.Susan and Deborah share an intensely selfish，egotistic streak .

スーザンとデボラは、2人とも極端に利己的で自己中心的だ。

5.We 're both alike-there is a streak of madness in us both.

私たち二人は似ている--少し気が狂っている。