interjectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/
• 韻: -ɛkt

動詞

interject (三人称単数 現在形 interjects, 現在分詞 interjecting, 過去形および過去分詞形 interjected)

1. (transitive) To insert something between other things.
2. (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
   • 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], OCLC 1193162412, page 474-475:

     He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, “Chapter 24”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall‎^[1]:

     ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’
     ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.

   • 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, in Sam Moskowitz, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon‎^[2], published 1979:

     As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.

   • 21 August 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, in The New Yorker‎^[3]:

     Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”

3. (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.

同意語

• (to insert between other things): insert
• (to interpose oneself): interpose, intervene

関連する語

• interjectable
• interjection
• interjector