resembleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/
• ハイフネーション: re‧sem‧ble

動詞

resemble (三人称単数 現在形 resembles, 現在分詞 resembling, 過去形および過去分詞形 resembled)

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     We will resemble you in that.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230b.

     But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

   The twins resemble each other.

2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 または 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:

     They can so well resemble mans speech.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

     And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,
     And with the ſame proportion of Elements,
     Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled,
     Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]

   • 1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion

     they resemble themselves to the swans

同意語

• mirror
• duplicate
• look like

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