flesh
要点肉、肉体
意味
- (人間・動物の)肉
- (魚,時には鳥を除く)食肉(meat)
- 肉付き,太りぐあい
- (くだもの)果肉;(野菜の)葉肉
- 《the~》(精神・魂に対して)肉体,身体
- 《the~》肉欲
- 肉色(ピンクがかった肌色)
例文
The lion ripped the flesh from the dead giraffe.
ライオンは死んだきりんの肉を食いちぎった。
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
心熱けれど肉体は弱し。
The word became flesh and lived for a while among us.
言葉は人となって、私たちの間に住まわれた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese, I…