truceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹuːs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɹus/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈtɹʉs/
• 韻: -uːs

名詞

truce (plural truces)

1. A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.

   An uneasy truce

   • 1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, in George Cheyne, The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published 1733, →OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]), page 321:

     [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.

     A figurative use.

2. An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.

   He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.

   • 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, “How Fear Came”, in The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 8:

     ‘The Truce holds, Bagheera. This is no time to talk of hunting.’

   • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 108:

     [T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.

同意語

• armistice
• ceasefire

動詞

truce (third-person singular simple present truces, present participle trucing, simple past and past participle truced)

1. (intransitive) To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
   • 1869, Thomas Cobbe, History of the Norman Kings of England, page 330:

     Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.

派生語

アナグラム

• Crute, Curet, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut, uCret