summit
英 ['sʌmɪt]
美 ['sʌmɪt]
英語の語源
- summit
- summit: see sum
- summit (n.)
- c. 1400, "highest point, peak," from Middle French somete, from Old French somete "summit, top," diminutive of som, sum "highest part, top of a hill," from Latin summum, neuter of noun use of summus "highest," related to super "over" (see sum (n.)). The meaning "meeting of heads of state" (1950) is from Winston Churchill's metaphor of "a parley at the summit."
例文
- 1. Never before has a summit had such a crowded agenda.
- これまでサミットの日程がこんなに埋まったことは一度もなかった。
- 2.As we approached the summit we were vouchsafed a rare vision.
- 頂上に近づいた時、私たちは幸運にもめったに見られない光景を見た。
- 3.Military bandsmen played music from each country represented at the summit .
- 軍楽隊はサミットに参加した国々の音楽を演奏した。
- 4.The summit was crowned by the signing of the historic START treaty.
- 今回のサミットは、歴史的な意味を持つ「攻撃的戦略兵器削減条約」の締結に成功した。
- 5.Egypt had agreed to a summit subject to certain conditions.
- エジプトはサミットのテーマに条件付きで同意した。