bosom
要点胸、胸中
意味
- 《遠回しに》(特に女性の)胸(breast);(衣類の)胸部,ふところ 《one's~》胸中,胸のうち
情 - 《the~》《文》奥,内部;(大海・湖などの)広い表面(surface)
- 親しい
例文
Fashion in the eighteenth century emphasized the bosom.
18世紀の流行は胸の部分を強調していた。
The mother hugged the child to her bosom.
母親はその子を胸に抱きしめた。
He was happy in the bosom of his family.
家族の愛情に包まれて彼は幸福であった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).