todayの意味・使い方・発音

today

英 [tə'deɪ] 美 [tə'de]

today: today: [OE] Today is simply a compound assembled from the preposition to (in the now obsolete sense ‘at, on’) and day. Parallel formations are Dutch vandaag (literally ‘from or of day’) and Swedish and Danish i dag (‘in day’). In fact virtually all the terms for ‘today’ in the European languages contain an element meaning ‘day’, but not all of them are as obvious as today, vandaag, and i dag.

German heute, for instance, comes from a prehistoric Germanic *hiu tagu, which meant literally ‘on this day’. Russian segodnja likewise denotes etymologically ‘this day’. And the second syllable of Latin hodiē ‘today’ (ancestor of French aujourd’hui, Italian oggi, and Spanish hoy) represents an inflected form of diēs ‘day’. Tomorrow and tonight [OE] were formed on the same basis.
today (adv.): Old English tod?ge, to d?ge "on (this) day," from to "at, on" (see to) + d?ge, dative of d?g "day" (see day). Meaning "in modern times" is from c. 1300. As a noun from 1530s. Generally written as two words until 16c., after which it usually was written to-day until early 20c.

Similar constructions exist in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch van daag "from-day," Danish and Swedish i dag "in day." German heute is from Old High German hiutu, from Proto-Germanic *hiu tagu "on (this) day," with first element from PIE pronominal stem *ki-, represented by Latin cis "on this side."

1. As a group， today 's old people are still relatively deprived.: 総じて言えば、今の高齢者は依然として相対的に貧しい。

2.There has been a busy start to polling in today 's local elections.: 今日の地方選挙の投票は、最初から人でごった返していた。

3. Today I might hesitate to turn in a burglar.: 今、入室窃盗犯を警察に送致させているので、心配になるかもしれません。

4.Return the enclosed Donation Form today in the prepaid envelope provided.: 本日、同封の寄付フォームを提供された郵便料金前払いの封筒で返送してください。

5. Today 's Security Council resolution will be a significant success for American diplomacy.今日の安保理決議は、米国外交にとって大きな成功である。