lax
要点厳格でない、ゆるんだ
意味
- (法などが)厳格でない,手ぬるい
- だらしない,たるんだ;(…に)いいかげんな《+about+名(doing)》
- ゆるんだ
例文
Better short and sweet, than long and lax.
長くてだらしがないより短くて簡潔のほうがよい。
Some member countries have been lax in abiding by G-7 agreements.
加盟国中数カ国は、Ｇ７の協定に従うことにあいまいな態度を見せています。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.