bush
要点低木
意味
- 低木(たけが低く根元から多数の小枝が発生している木)
- 《the bush》未開墾地,森林地
- 茂る,密生する;〈毛髪などが〉やぶのようになる
例文
Mr. Bush had slightly more votes than Mr. Gore.
ブッシュ氏の得票数はゴア氏を若干上回った。
We hid behind a bush so that no one would see us.
私達は見つからないように茂みの後ろに隠れた。
He pulled the wounded soldier to the nearby bush.
彼は負傷した兵士を近くの茂みまで引っ張って行った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”).