anger
要点怒り
意味
- 怒り,立腹
- …をおこらせる(make angry)
- おこる(become angry)
例文
She broke off her engagement in a fit of anger.
彼女は腹立ちまぎれに婚約を破棄した。
We were filled with anger against the murderer.
我々は殺人者に対する怒りで胸一杯になった。
She held back her anger, and smiled graciously.
彼女は怒りをこらえ、にっこりと微笑した。
語源
古ノルド語angr「悲しみ・苦しみ」から。胸が締めつけられるようなつらさ「怒り」へ意味が変化。
anxious（不安な）・anguish（苦悩）も「締めつける」の仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin angō (“squeeze, choke, vex”), angor (“strangulation; anguish, torme…