limb
要点手足
意味
- (動物の)手足;(鳥の)翼
- (木の)大枝
例文
Tom Skeleton was shaking and trembling in every limb.
トム・スケレトンは手足をぶるぶる震わせていた。
Branches are to trees what limbs are to us.
木にとっては枝は人間の手足に相当する。
I went out on a limb and bought 500 shares of Sony stock.
私は危険を犯して敢えてソニーの株を500株買った。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.