easy
要点容易な、心配のない
意味
- (事が)容易な,骨の折れない
- 心配のない,気楽な
- 寛大な,甘い
- (速度などが)ゆるやかな;(衣服などが)ゆったりした
- 楽々と;のんきに
例文
It is not always easy to read between the lines.
行間を読むことは必ずしも易しくない。
This fish is bony and it is not easy to bone it.
この魚は骨が多くてとるのがたいへんだ。
It isn't easy to write a love letter in English.
英語でラブレターを書くのは、やさしくない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, auð-, Icelandic auð (adverb), auð-, all meaning "easy." More at ease, eath.