beer（ビール）
要点ビール
意味
- ビール;コップ1杯(びん1本)のビール
- 発酵性飲料(アルコール分の有無に関係ない)
例文
This beer contains a high proportion of alcohol.
このビールはアルコールの含有量が多い。
When it's hot, there's nothing like a cold beer.
暑い時は、冷たいビールに限るね。
White wine doesn't agree with me; I prefer beer.
白ワインは、体質に合わないので、ビールの方がいいな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English ber, bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewsóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”. However, also see the "beer" entry on EtymOnline (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being older-aged and/or smaller.