violent
英 ['vaɪəl(ə)nt]
美 ['vaɪələnt]
語源
英語の語源
- violent (adj.)
- mid-14c., from Old French violent or directly from Latin violentus, related to violare (see violation). In Middle English the word also was applied in reference to heat, sunlight, smoke, etc., with the sense "having some quality so strongly as to produce a powerful effect." Related: Violently.
例文
- 1. The crowds became violent and threw petrol bombs at the police.
- 人の群れが暴れだし、警察にガソリン弾を投げつけた。
- 2.A violent explosion seemed to jolt the whole ground.
- 激しい爆発が地面全体を巻き上げようとしているようだ。
- 3.Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.
- 強姦事件と暴力侵害事件のほぼ90%が通報されていない。/
- 4.He has led a violent armed insurgency for 15 years.
- 彼が武装暴動を指導してから15年になる。
- 5.Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film 's violent and tragic end.
- 映画を見に来た多くの人がこの映画の暴力的で悲惨な結末に驚いた。
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