brook
要点小川
意味
- …をがまんする,忍ぶ,に耐える
- 小川,細流
例文
The fallen tree arrested the current of a brook.
倒れた木が小川の流れをせきとめた。
The water in this brook is cool and clear.
この小川の水は冷たくてきれいね。
His pride would not brook such insults.
自尊心から彼にそのような侮辱は耐えられなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).