belieとは

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• bely

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlʌɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlaɪ/, /bəˈlaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

語源 1

From Middle English belyen, beliggen, from 古期英語 belicgan, bilicgan (“to lie around, surround, hedge in, encompass”); equivalent to be- (“around, by”) +‎ lie (to be positioned). Cognate with German beliegen.

動詞

belie (三人称単数 現在形 belies, 現在分詞 belying, 過去形 belay, 過去分詞 belain)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
2. (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.

語源 2

From Middle English belyen, beleoȝen, from 古期英語 belēogan (“to deceive by lying, be mistaken”), from Proto-Germanic *bileuganą (“to belie”); equivalent to be- (“about”) +‎ lie (to deceive). Cognate with Old Frisian biliaga (“to belie”), Dutch beliegen (“to belie”), German belügen (“to lie to”), Swedish beljuga (“to tell lies about”).

動詞

belie (三人称単数 現在形 belies, 現在分詞 belying, 過去形および過去分詞形 belied)

1. (transitive) To tell lies about; to slander. [from 13th c.]
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act I Scene iii^[1]:

     Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.

2. (transitive) To give a false representation of, to misrepresent. [from 17th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II Scene ii^[2]:

     Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv:

     He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not […].

3. (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]

   Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.

   • 2001, Arun Kaul, Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir, in The Human Landscape, page 227:

     Early Chinese Buddhist travellers like O'Kong (AD 759-763) mention the use of kesar in Buddhist Viharas for various rituals, and also in making paint for Buddhist scrolls and thankas. This fact belies the earlier myth that would have us believe that kesar was not known prior to Lalitaditya's reign.

4. (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).

   His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.

   • 2013, Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought," New York Times, August 31, 2013

     The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.

5. (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
   • 1993, Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

     A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.

   • 2016 August 30, Jeanne Marie Laskas, “Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns”, *GQ* online:

     […] a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility […]

6. (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Which durst, with horses hoofs that beat the ground,

     And martial brass, belie the thunder's sound.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?), Fables.

     The shape of man, and imitated beast

     The walk, the words, the gesture could supply,

     The habit mimick, and the mien belie.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To fill with lies.
   • c. 1608-10, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III Scene iv^[3]:

     'Tis slander,

     Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

     Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath

     Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie

     All corners of the world.

同意語

• (to give a false representation): misrepresent
• (to tell lies about): calumniate
• (to contradict または show to be false): contradict, give lie to, give the lie to

反意語

• (make unknown information known): reveal
• (allow information to be familiar): disclose

アナグラム

• Elbie