weekend
英 [wiːk'end; 'wiː-]
美 ['wikɛnd]
- n. 週末; 週末パーティー
- adj.週末、週末の使用
- vi.
英語の語源
- weekend (n.)
- also week-end, 1630s, from week + end (n.). Originally a northern word (referring to the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning); it became general after 1878. As an adjective, "only on weekends," it is recorded from 1935. Long weekend attested from 1900; in reference to Great Britain in the period between the world wars, 1944.
例文
- 1. After a three- weekend courtship,Pamela accepted Randolph 's proposal of marriage.3週末の追求を経て、パメラはルドルフのプロポーズを受けた。
- 2.The winner will face the Oakland A 's in the playoffs this weekend .
- 勝者は今週末のプレーオフでオークランド?アスレチックスと対戦する。
- 3.Why don 't you and I go away this weekend ?
- 今週末は休暇に出かけませんか?
- 4.Talks with the teachers 'union over the weekend have averted a strike.週末に教員組合と行われた交渉はストライキを回避した。
- 5.Over the weekend ,a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived.
- 今週、60人の住民がいる建物を焼失した。
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