He'llとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Contraction of he (wi)ll and he shall

発音

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/, /hɪl/
• 異形同音異義語: heal, heel, hill (in some accents)
• 韻: -ɪl

短縮形

he’ll

1. 短縮形 of he will.
2. 短縮形 of he shall.

参考

• I'll
• it'll
• she'll
• they'll
• we'll
• you'll

発音

• enPR: hĕl, IPA^(key): /hɛl/
• 韻: -ɛl

語源 1

From Middle English helle, from 古期英語 hel, hell, helle (“nether world, abode of the dead, hell”), from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.

固有名詞

hell

1. In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
   • 1611, KJV, Proverbs, 23:14

     Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

2. (in many religions, uncountable) The place where sinners suffer after death

   May you rot in hell!

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

     Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:afterlife

反意語

• (in many religions, 不可算): heaven

名詞

hell (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 hells)

1. (countable, hyperbolic, figurative) A place or situation of great suffering in life.

   War is hell.

   I went through hell to get home today.

   • 1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy

     There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

   • 1986, Metallica (music), “Disposable Heroes”, in Master of Puppets:

     Why, am I dying? / Kill, have no fear / Lie, live off lying / Hell, hell is here

2. (countable) A place for gambling.
   • 1877, William Black, Green Pastures and Piccadilly

     a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless

   • 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, OCLC 270548466; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, OCLC 1107573959, page 15:

     But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]

3. (figurative) An extremely hot place.

   You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

4. (sometimes considered vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

   I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.

   What the hell is wrong with you?!

   He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

5. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)

6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

派生語

間投詞

hell

1. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

   Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice, Act II Scene 7

     O hell! what have we here?

     A carrion Death, within whose empty eye

     There is a written scroll! [...]

2. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to emphasize.

   Hell, yeah!

3. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

   [Do it, or, r]est assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

参考

• damn
• heck

副詞

hell (not comparable)

1. (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     ‘I know whether a boy is telling me the truth or not.’
     ‘Thank you, sir.’
     Did he hell. They never bloody did.

語源 2

From German hellen (“to brighten, burnish”). Related to Dutch hel (“clear, bright”) and German hell (“clear, bright”).

動詞

hell (三人称単数 現在形 hells, 現在分詞 helling, 過去形および過去分詞形 helled)

1. (まれに, metal-working) To add luster to, burnish (silver または gold).
   • 1770, Godfrey Smith, The Laboratory: Or, School of Arts

     To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster.

参照

• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

語源 3

From Old Norse hella (“to pour”). Cognate with Icelandic hella (“to pour”), Norwegian helle (“to pour”), Swedish hälla (“to pour”). See also hield.

動詞

hell (三人称単数 現在形 hells, 現在分詞 helling, 過去形および過去分詞形 helled)

1. (まれに) To pour.
   • 18th century, unknown author, The Harvest or Bashful Shepherd

     Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.

参照

• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles