swayの意味・使い方・発音

sway

英 [sweɪ] 美 [swe]

sway (v.): early 14c., "move, go, go quickly; move (something) along, carry," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse sveigja "to bend, swing, give way," Old Danish svegja, perhaps merged with an unrecorded Old English cognate. The whole group might be related to swag (v.) and swing (v.).

The sense of "swing, waver, move in a swaying or sweeping motion" is from late 14c. Meaning "move from side to side" is from c. 1500; transitive sense "cause to move from side to side" is from 1550s (according to OED, not common before 19c.). Figurative sense "cause to be directed toward one side, prejudice" is from 1590s. Related: Swayed; swaying.
sway (n.): c. 1300, "movement from side to side," from sway (v.). The meaning "controlling influence" (as in to be under the sway of) is from 1510s, from a transitive sense of the verb in Dutch and other languages.

1. A hard-core group of right-wing senators had hoped to sway their colleagues.: 中堅右翼上院議員たちが同僚を左右しようとしたことがある。

2.South of the Usk,a completely different approach seems to hold sway .: アスク以南で盛んなのは全く異なる方法のようだ。

3.In medieval times the church held sway over many countries.: 中世には教会が多くの国を支配していた。

4.His speech failed to sway his colleagues into supporting the plan.: 彼の話は同僚にこの計画を支持させることができなかった。