narrow
要点狭い、範囲(種類)が限られた、厳密な、やっとり、せばまった場所
意味
- (幅の)狭い,細い
- 範囲(種類)が限られた(limited)
- 厳密な,正確な(exact)
- やっとり,かろうじての
- (海・川などの)せばまった場所;
- (…に)…を狭くする,細める,せばめる《+down+名(+名+down)+to+名》
- 狭くする,細くなる
例文
Our attitude toward plants is singularly narrow.
植物に対する私たちの態度は、極めて思いやりがない。
They had a narrow escape under cover of darkness.
彼らは夜陰に乗じてかろうじて逃れる事ができた。
He had a narrow escape in the traffic accident.
彼は交通事故で九死に一生を得た。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”).