distance
要点距離
意味
- (二つの物・場所の間の)距離,間隔
- (時間の)間隔,隔たり
- 遠方,離れた地点
- 《通例複数形で》視界の広がった場所;(絵画の)遠景
- (競走・学力などで)〈人〉を引き離す,…に差をつける
例文
You had better keep him at a respectful distance.
君は彼を敬遠する方がよい。
I found that he was gazing at me at a distance.
私は彼が少し離れたところで私をじっと見ているのに気づいた。
We were glad when we saw a light in the distance.
遠方に明かりを見た時、私達は嬉しかった。
語源
di-離れて＋stance立つ
ラテン語「離れて(dis)立つ(stare)」から離れていること「距離」。
stand・statusも「立つ」の仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English distance, distaunce, destance (“disagreement, dispute; discrimination; armed conflict; hostility; trouble; space between two points; time interval”), from Anglo-Norman distance, distaunce, destance, Middle French distance, and Old French destance, destaunce, distaunce (“debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval”) (modern French distance), and directly from their etymon Latin distantia (“difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points”) (whence also Late Latin distantia (“disagreement; discrepancy; gap, opening; time interval”)), from distāns (“being distant; standing apart”) + -ia (suffix form…