treadmill
英 ['tredmɪl]
美 ['trɛdmɪl]
英語の語源
- treadmill (n.)
- invented (and named) 1822; originally an instrument of prison discipline; from tread (v.) + mill (n.1). Treadwheel as a similar method of driving machinery is from 1570s.
As a corrective punishment, the discipline of the stepping mill has had a most salutary effect upon the prisoners, and is not likely to be easily forgotten, while it is an occupation which by no means interferes with, nor is calculated to lessen the value of, those branches of prison regulation which provide for the moral and religious improvement of the criminal. ["Description of the Tread Mill Invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich for the Employment of Prisoners," London, 1822]
By later generations regarded as a path to physical fitness.
例文
- 1. Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill .
- ストークス氏は、次の週は無味乾燥な宣伝作業に苛まれることが予想される。
- 2.I 'd like to escape the office treadmill .
- オフィスの退屈な仕事から抜け出したい。
- 3.The treadmill has a heart rate monitor.
- トレッドミルに脈拍モニタがある。
- 4.The men exercised on a treadmill after each exposure and control period.
- 各制御時間の暴露後、彼らは自転車の上で運動した。
- 5.Drugs remove man from the treadmill of routine.
- 薬物は日常の単調な仕事による疲労から解放させることができる。
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