impose
英検2級・TOEFL・大学受験課す・押しつける、課す・押し付ける、課す・押しつける（on）
意味
- (人・物に)〈重荷・税金など〉を課する,負わせる《+名+on(upon)+名〈人・物〉》
- (人に)〈考えなど〉を押しつける,強いる《+名+on(upon)+名〈人〉》
例文
We shouldn't impose our opinions on other people.
私たちは、自分の意見を他に人に押し付けてはいけない。
The government imposed a new tax on cigarettes.
政府は、タバコに新しい税金を課した。
Unfair tariffs are imposed on foreign products.
海外製品に不公平な関税が課せられている。
語源
im-上に＋pose置く
「上に(im)置く(pose)」税や義務を「課す」、考えを「押しつける」。
compose・expose・oppose のposeも「置く」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after: * Latin impōnere (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and * Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passiv…
辞書順で近い単語
importantly importation importer imposing impossibility impossible