bold
大学受験大胆な・太字の
意味
- 大胆な,恐れを知らない(fearless)
- ずぶとい,ずうずうしい
- 太くて目立つ;(文字が)肉太の
- けわしい
例文
May I be so bold as to request your assistance?
恐縮ですがお手伝い願えませんか。
May I make so bold as to request your assistance?
恐縮ですがお手伝い願えませんか。
He gets a little bold after he's had a few drinks.
彼は酒を飲むと気が大きくなる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”). Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). Compare typologically Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).