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"Preposterous!"発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
「ばかもの!」 - James Matthew Barrie『ケンジントン公園のピーターパン』
It is absurd―preposterous―monstrous―outrageous―atrocious.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
沙汰の限りである - 斎藤和英大辞典
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apo- | 「…から離れて」「向こうの方へ」、分離などを表す。その他に「…に関係して」の意。重要な派生語は、接頭辞ab-を持つ語(abjure, abrupt, absorbなど)、語幹poseを持つ語(imposeなど)、apostrophe, of, off, sinceなど。 | |
per | 非常に広い意味を持つ印欧語根で、基本的には「前に」「…を経て」を表す前置詞の意味を持つ。その他にin front of, before, early, first, chief, toward, against, near, at, aroundのような広い意味を表す。 主な派生語には、first, from, before, forth, paradise, per-で始まる多くの語(percentなど)、接頭辞pre-を持つ語(preludeなど)、pri-で始まる多くの語(princeなど)、接頭辞pro-を持つ語(propertyなど)などがある。 |
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pose | (posit, ponent)置くことを表すラテン語p#onere、印欧語根apo-から。 |
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pre- | 1.a.早い |
Wiktionary英語版での「preposterous」の意味 |
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From Latin praeposterus (“with the hinder part before, reversed, inverted, perverted”), from prae (“before”) + posterus (“coming after”).
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preposterous (comparative more preposterous, superlative most preposterous)
- Absurd, or contrary to common sense.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- [...] I did incounter that obſeene and moſt prepoſterous euent that draweth frõ my ſnowhite pen the ebon coloured Incke, which here thou vieweſt, beholdeſt, ſuruayeſt, or ſeeſt. [...] There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Audience”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 257:
- So I am to send Mrs. Churchill down to the very spot where a treasonable correspondence is most easily managed; and by the ease with which she gets out of a first scrape, give her all possible encouragement to get into another. Well, I was quite right in asking what preposterous request had you come here about!
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.
- 2014 December 4, Timothy Egan, “A deficit of dignity”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.
- 2016 January 30, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, retrieved 31 January 2016:
- Democrats, too, must be criticised. While they have not made preposterous statements or been threatening or demagogic, they, all too often, have come up short, failing to propose new ideas that can help unwind conflicts raging across the Middle East.
Further reading
- “preposterous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “preposterous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
「preposterous」を含む例文一覧
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Apologize for being thrashed? It is preposterous.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
殴られて謝れとは無法な話だ - 斎藤和英大辞典
Preposterous!発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
めっそうもない(そんなことがあるものか) - 斎藤和英大辞典
the condition of one's speech and action of being preposterous発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
言動がばかげていること - EDR日英対訳辞書
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