amuse
要点楽しませる
意味
- (…で)〈人,自分自身〉を楽しませる,おかしがらせる《+名+with+名,+名+by doing》
例文
The parents try to amuse their baby with a toy.
両親は赤ん坊をおもちゃであやそうとした。
How will they amuse the children on a wet afternoon?
雨の日の午後はどのようにして子供たちを楽しませるのだろうか。
Small things amuse small minds.
小人はつまらないことに興ずる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English *amusen (“to mutter, be astonished, gaze meditatively on”), from Old French amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa (“idle waiting”), Italian musare (“to gape idly about”). Possibly from Old French *mus (“snout”) from Vulgar Latin *mūsa (“snout”) — compare Medieval Latin mūsum (“muzzle, snout”) –, from Proto-Germanic *mū- (“muzzle, snout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“lips, muzzle”). Compare North Frisian müs, mös (“mouth”), German Maul (“muzzle, snout”).