hearts beat as oneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ts biːt əz ˈwɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːɹts bit əz ˈwʌn/

動詞

hearts beat as one (三人称単数 現在形 hearts beat as one, 現在分詞 hearts beating as one, 過去形および過去分詞形 hearts beat as one)

1. (idiomatic) To share the same feelings.
   • 1851 August, “N. P. W.”, “A Love Letter, Supposed to have been Written for the ‘Home Journal’”, in Henry Bacon, editor, The Ladies’ Repository, volume XX, Boston, Mass.: Published by A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill, published 1852, OCLC 1013335346, page 63, column 2:

     Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature.

   • 1867 December 14, “Match-making”, in The Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Society, and Art, volume VI, number 151, New York, N.Y.: The Round Table Association, 132 Nassau Street, OCLC 191709058, page 393:

     It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one.

   • [1890?], W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “The Cross is Lost”, in Holy Cross: A History of the Invention, Preservation, and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, OCLC 181826551, page 111:

     The Deus vult of the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from hearts beating as one. The Allah Khbur of the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death.

   • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale (video game), Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

     Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts beating as one. They're all burning with the same desire.