tarmac
['tɑrmæk]
英語の語源
- tarmac
- tarmac: [20] The term tarmac commemorates the name of John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), a Scottish civil engineer who developed a method of levelling roads and covering them with gravel. Setting the gravel in tar produced in the 1880s the term tarmacadam, and in 1903 the abbreviated form tarmac was registered as a trademark. By 1919 the word was being used in British English as a synonym for ‘runway’.
- tarmac (n.)
- 1903, Tarmac, a trademark name, short for tarmacadam (1882) "pavement created by spraying tar over crushed stone," from tar (n.1) + John L. McAdam (see macadam). By 1919, tarmac was being used generally in Great Britain for "runway."
例文
- 1. As Parretti walked across the tarmac ，fraud officers closed in.
- パラティがアスファルト道路を通り抜けると、反詐欺警察が取り囲んだ。
- 2.Standing on the tarmac were two American planes.
- 駐機場にはアメリカ機が2機止まっている。
- 3.They staggereed in a zigzag across the tarmac .
- 彼らは深い足で浅い足を踏み入れ、よろよろと駐機場を通り抜けた。
- 4.Three planes were standing on the tarmac ，waiting to take off.
- 3機が滑走路に停車し、離陸を待っている。
- 5.The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.
- 旅客たちは滑走路を通って飛行機に乗るように誘導された。
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