eve
要点前夜
意味
- イブ,エバ(神が創造した人類最初の女性;Adamの妻)
- (祝祭日の)前夜,前日
- 《the~》(重要な事の)直前《+of+名》
例文
On New Year's Eve, the trains will run all night.
おおみそかには電車は終夜運転します。
I spent New Year's Eve with some of my friends.
友達と一緒に年越ししたよ。
Are you doing anything special for New Year's Eve?
大晦日には何か特別なことをするの？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source. In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".
関連する単語
everything every ever even everyone everybody evening eventually