bleach
意味
- (日光・薬品で)…を漂白する,さらす
- 白くなる
- 漂白剤
- 漂白作用
例文
I need to get my hair bleached at the salon.
サロンで髪を脱色してもらわないとな。
I think that Tom looks better with his natural black hair than with bleached hair.
トムは茶髪より黒髪の方が似合うと思う。
Several years ago, a bleached body was discovered in a vacant plot in the neighbourhood.
数年前、近所の空き地で白骨死体が発見された。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).