bull
要点雄牛
意味
- 雄牛
- (象,鯨,アザラシなどの)雄
- (株の)買い方,強気筋
- ローマ教皇の教書
- こっけいな矛盾
- …を押し進める
例文
You've got to take the bull by the horns!
この難局に立ち向かえ。
Bulls make money, bears make money, hogs get slaughtered.
強気な者はお金を儲け、弱気な者はお金を儲け、欲深い取引者は損失ぞ。
To catch the bull, grab its horns.
牡牛を捕まえるには角をつかめ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Albanian bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”). Of sense 11, (a man or boy), derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of boy, which is practically a homophone of bull.
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