deaf
要点耳が遠い、聞こうとしない
意味
- 耳が遠い,耳が不自由な
- 《the deaf;名詞的に》耳が不自由な人々
- 《補語にのみ用いて》(…を)聞こうとしない(…に)むとんじゃくである《+to+名》
例文
There were no schools for the deaf at that time.
当時はろうあ者たちのための学校は一つもなかった。
There are none so deaf as those who won't hear.
心ここに在らざれば聞けども聴こえず。
When I ask him to pay me back, he turns a deaf ear.
私がお金を返すように頼むと、彼は聞こえないふりをします。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English def, deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub (“deaf”), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf or stunned”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb. Doublet of daff, dof, and dowf. Cognate with Dutch doof, German taub, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål døv, Norwegian Nynorsk dauv, Swedish döv, Faroese deyvur, Icelandic daufur.