mole
意味
- モグラ
- ほくろ,あざ
- 防波堤,突堤
- モル,グラム分子(化学分子量をグラムで表したもの)
例文
That person has a mole at the side of his eye.
あの人は眼の横にほくろがある。
The dead body was identified by a mole on the cheek.
その遺体の身元は頬のほくろで確認された。
I don't think people should make a mountain of a mole hill.
針ほどのことを棒ほどにいうのはどうかと思います。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”). Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).