bucket
要点バケツ,手おけ
意味
- バケツ,手おけ;(井戸の)つるべ
- バケツ状の物;(水車・タービンなどの)水受け;(ポンプの)吸い子
- バケツ1杯(の…)(bucketful)《+of+名》
例文
Tom went to the river to get a bucket of water.
トムはバケツの水をくみに川へ行きました。
Private charity is only a drop in the bucket.
個人の善意は大海の一滴にすぎません。
There's a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
バケツの底に穴があいてるよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.