underhand
英 ['ʌndəhænd]
美 [,ʌndɚ'hænd]
- adj.裏をかく; 陰湿な.
- adv.不正に; 裏で
英語の語源
- underhand (adv.)
- mid-14c., "by secret means, stealthily, in a surreptitious manner," from under + hand (n.). Perhaps the notion is of the hand turned over (thus concealing what it holds). Compare Middle Dutch onderhanden "by degrees, slowly," Dutch onderhandsch "secret, private." The adjective is attested from 1540s. Old English under hand meant "in subjection, in (one's) control or power."
例文
- 1. It is a sneaky and underhand way of doing business.
- という商売のやり方はこそこそして、隠す。
- 2.In softball，pitches are tossed underhand .
- ソフトボールではアンダースローを採用している。
- 3.Mr Livingstone accused the government of being underhand .
- リビングストン氏は政府が詐欺をしていると非難した。
- 4.I would never have expected her to behave in such an underhand way.
- 彼女の行動がこんなに陰険だとは思わなかった。
- 5. Underhand work of that sort is against the grain with me.
- という詐欺的なことは私には当てはまらない。
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