ambassador
要点大使
意味
- 大使
例文
The ambassador is responsible for the assignment.
大使はその任務に対して責任がある。
Mr Brown was acting in the capacity of ambassador.
ブラウン氏は大使の資格で行動していた。
Do you know who the British Ambassador to Japan is?
駐日英国大使はだれだか知っていますか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, from Old Italian ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”), from *h₂m̥bʰi- (“around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English ǣrendraca.