bunch
要点ふさ
意味
- (…の)ふさ(cluster),束《+of+名(複数)》
- 《話》(…の)群れ《+of+名(複数)》
- 一団(束)になる《+up》
- …を束(ふさ)にする
例文
A bunch of people were standing outside waiting.
かなりの数の人が待って外に立っていた。
I hear you Irish are a bunch of drinkin' fools.
おめーらアイルランド人は、みんな飲兵衛らしいじゃねーか。
A bunch of people told me not to eat there.
そこでは食べるなと少なくない人に言われた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (/pankuš/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)).