behavior
英検2級行動・ふるまい
意味
- ふるまい,行動;(相手への反応として示す)態度;行儀,品行
- (ある状況での物の)作用,反応;(車などの)調子
例文
An overwhelming part of our behavior is learned.
私たちの行動の圧倒的な部分は学んで身についたものだ。
Her behavior at the party was far from perfect.
パーティーでの彼女のふるまいは全くひどいものだった。
They felt disgraced by their son's wild behavior.
彼らは息子の乱暴なふるまいを恥ずかしく感じた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English behavoure, behaver, from behaven (modern behave), morphologically equivalent to behave + -ior. The suffix was adopted in imitation of havour (modern haviour, havior), an etymologically unrelated word that was corrupted from Anglo‐Norman Anglo-Norman aveir and Old French Old French avoir (“property, wealth”) through false association with the native English verb have. The French term derives ultimately from Latin Latin habēre (“to have, hold”). Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). Replaced Old English ġebǣru.