surface
英 ['sɜːfɪs]
美 ['sɝfɪs]
- n. 表面的な; 表面的な; 外観
- adj.
- vi.
- 浮上させる；平らにする
- n. （表面的な）人の名前；（英）サーファー
語源
表面、表面層、水面sur-, on, face, 面, 表面.
英語の語源
- surface
- surface: [17] Surface was coined in French on the model of Latin superficiēs ‘surface’ (source of English superficial). It contains the same elements: sur- ‘above’ (a descendant of Latin super) and face ‘face’.
=> face, superficial - surface (v.)
- "come to the surface," 1898, from surface (n.). Earlier it meant "bring to the surface" (1885), and "to give something a (polished) surface" (1778). Related: Surfaced; surfacing.
- surface (n.)
- 1610s, from French surface "an outermost boundary, outside part" (16c.), from Old French sur- "above" (see sur-) + face (see face (n.)). Patterned on Latin superficies "surface, upper side, top" (see superficial). As an adjective from 1660s.
例文
- 1. Rumours of financial scandals have come bubbling back to the surface .
- 財務スキャンダルに関するデマが次々と飛び出している。
- 2.Somewhere deep beneath the surface lay a caring character.
- 心の奥底の片隅に愛を秘めている。
- 3.As the egg whites cook，they coagulate and rise to the surface .
- タンパク質は煮ると凝結し、浮き上がる。
- 4.Rub the surface of the wood in preparation for the varnish.
- 木材の表面を磨き、ニスを磨く準備をします。
- 5.He staggereed on the uneven surface of the car park.
- 彼は駐車場のでこぼこした地面をよろよろと歩いていた。