honeymoon
意味
- 新婚旅行(休暇),ハネムーン
- みつ月;幸福な期間
- …で)新婚休暇を過ごす,(…へ)新婚旅行をする《+in(at+名》
例文
We just got married, and this is our honeymoon.
結婚したばかりで、これは新婚旅行です。
Tom and Mary went to the moon for their honeymoon.
トムとメアリーは新婚旅行で月に行った。
More and more couples go on honeymoon trips abroad.
海外へ新婚旅行に行くカップルがますます増えている。
語源
honeyはちみつ＋moon月
結婚直後の甘い(honey)愛情も、月(moon)のように満ちてはやがて欠けていくことから。「新婚の時期・新婚旅行」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon. The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest. Compare Middle Low German suckermânt (“honeymoon”, literally “sugar-month”), German Low German Hönnigweken (“honeymoon”, literally “honey-weeks”). The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.