vacuum
英 ['vækjʊəm]
美 ['vækjʊəm]
- n. 真空; 空間; 掃除機
- adj.真空; 真空を利用する; 真空を発生させる
- vt.掃除機で掃除する。
語源
バキューム Vacuum語源：空っぽの、空っぽの、真空を指す言葉として使われる。
英語の語源
- vacuum (v.)
- "to clean with a vacuum cleaner," 1919, from vacuum (n.). Related: Vacuumed; vacuuming.
- vacuum (n.)
- 1540s, "emptiness of space," from Latin vacuum "an empty space, vacant place, a void," noun use of neuter of vacuus "empty, unoccupied, devoid of," figuratively "free, unoccupied," related to vacare "be empty" (see vain). Properly a loan-translation of Greek kenon, literally "that which is empty." Meaning "a space emptied of air" is attested from 1650s. Vacuum tube "glass thermionic device" is attested from 1859. Vacuum cleaner is from 1903; shortened form vacuum (n.) first recorded 1910.
The metaphysicians of Elea, Parmenides and Melissus, started the notion that a vacuum was impossible, and this became a favorite doctrine with Aristotle. All the scholastics upheld the maxim that "nature abhors a vacuum." [Century Dictionary]
例文
- 1. The Marshal stepped over the vacuum -cleaner and stumped out of the room.
- 元帥は真空掃除機を渡り、重い足取りで部屋を出た。
- 2. Vacuum -packed ham slices should be unwrapped 30 minutes before serving.
- 真空包装されたハム片は、食べる30分前に包装を除去しなければならない。
- 3.The collapse of the army left a vacuum in the area.
- この軍の壊滅でこの地域に軍事的真空が現れた。
- 4.He could hear the whirr of a vacuum cleaner.
- 彼は掃除機のブーンという音を聞くことができる。
- 5.We lived in a vacuum —no life，no news，no books.
- 私たちは世界から隔絶された環境に住んでいます——他の生物はいません。外部からの情報は得られません。本も読みません。