alight uponとは 意味・読み方・使い方

and it gave me the liveliest pleasure to alight upon this additional testimony to his penetration.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

それで、彼の洞察に次のような付加的な証拠をみつけたことはとてもうれしいことです。 - John Tyndall『英国科学協会ベルファースト総会での演説』

The dances performed by shrine maidens in ancient Japan, through which gods were believed to alight upon and possess the maidens who were performing the rituals for the gods, were later formalized and took the current form of dances for solemn prayer and dedication to the gods.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

古代日本において、祭祀を司る巫女自身の上に神が舞い降りるという神がかりの儀式のために行われた舞がもととなり、それが様式化して祈祷や奉納の舞となった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス