bounce
要点はずむ、はねる、はずませる、はね返り、弾力
意味
- 〈ボールなどが〉はずむ,はる返る
- 〈人が〉はねる
- …をはずませる,はる返らせる
- はね返り,はずみ
- 弾力
- 《話》元気,活気
例文
A rubber ball bounces because it is elastic.
ゴムのボールは弾力性があるから弾む。
This room is noisy. The sound bounces right off the walls.
話し声が壁に反響してうるさいな、この部屋。
Tomoko bounced happily out the door.
智子はイソイソと出掛けていった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”). Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).