noise
要点音、ざわめき
意味
- (特に,大きなまたは不快な)音,物音
- (街・往来などの)ざわめき,騒音,騒々しい声
- (一般に)物音
- (ラジオ・テレビなどの)ノイズ,雑音
- …を広める,言い触らす《+名+about(abroad, around)》
- 音を立てる;大声で話す《+about(around, abroad)》
例文
Her voice could hardly be heard above the noise.
彼女の声は騒音のなかでほとんど聞きとれなかった。
It took me a long time to get used to the noise.
その騒音に慣れるのに長い時間がかかった。
Do you think you could make a little less noise?
もう少し静かにしていただけませんか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense. Potentially a reduced form of Old French enoiier (“to bother, to disturb”), from Latin inodio (“to make repulsive”) - which would make it a doublet of English annoy (“to bother, to irritate”) and English ennui (“boredom, jadedness, depression”). Compare Piedmontese nojé (“to bother, to annoy”), though this fails to explain the final /z/.