gravel
意味
- 砂利
- 〈道など〉に砂利を敷く
- 〈人〉を困惑させる,まごつかせる
例文
We could hear footsteps crunching through the gravel.
私たちには砂利を踏みしめる足音が聞こえた。
Next year, this gravel road will be paved.
この砂利道は来年舗装されるだろう。
They are binding the gravel with cement to repair the road.
道路修理のために彼らは砂利をセメントで固めている。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also Old English græfa (“coal”).