lark
要点ヒバリ
意味
- ヒバリ
- 《話》戯れ,ふざけ;愉快で楽しいこと
- 《話》ふざける,浮かれ騒ぐ《+about》
例文
Mrs. Lark played the piano and the children sang.
ラーク先生がピアノを弾き、子供達が歌いました。
If the sky falls we shall catch larks.
取り越し苦労はするな。
Don't come to school to lark around.
遊び半分に学校へ来るな。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwaʀikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.