stupid
英 ['stjuːpɪd]
美 ['stupɪd]
- adj.愚かな; 無感覚な; 退屈な
- n. 愚か者、馬鹿者
語源
愚かな。ラテン語のstupereから、衝撃を与える、当惑させる、混乱させる、朦朧とさせる、PIE*stupeから、打つ、打ちのめす、steuから延長、語源的にはsteep、stoop、typeと同じ。
英語の語源
- stupid
- stupid: [16] As the related stupefy [16] and stupor [17] still do, stupid originally denoted ‘mental numbness’; ‘lack of intelligence’ is a secondary development. It comes via Old French stupide from Latin stupidus, a derivative of stupēre ‘be stunned or numbed with shock’. This was descended from an Indo-European base *stup- or *tup- ‘hit’, which also produced Greek tüptein ‘hit’ and Sanskrit tup- ‘harm, hurt’.
=> stupefy, stupor - stupid (adj.)
- 1540s, "mentally slow, lacking ordinary activity of mind, dull, inane," from Middle French stupide (16c.) and directly from Latin stupidus "amazed, confounded; dull, foolish," literally "struck senseless," from stupere "be stunned, amazed, confounded," from PIE *stupe- "hit," from root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Related: Stupidly; stupidness.
Native words for this idea include negative compounds with words for "wise" (Old English unwis, unsnotor, ungleaw), also dol (see dull (adj.)), and dysig (see dizzy (adj.)). Stupid retained its association with stupor and its overtones of "stunned by surprise, grief, etc." into mid-18c. The difference between stupid and the less opprobrious foolish roughly parallels that of German t?richt vs. dumm but does not exist in most European languages.
例文
- 1. He was carrying on about some stupid television series.
- 彼はある退屈なテレビドラマをべらべらしゃべっている。
- 2.I don 't see the point in it really.It 's just stupid .
- 私は本当にこれが何の意味があるのか理解できなくて、まったく愚かです。
- 3.I shall have words with these stupid friends of mine！
- 私は本当に私の愚かな友人理論に従うべきです！
- 4.Friendship is much more important to me than a stupid old ring！
- 友情は私にとって破れた指輪よりずっと重要です！
- 5.Do women really share such stupid jokes？We suspect not.
- 女たちは本当にそんなバカな冗談を笑っているのだろうか。私たちはできないと思います。