patch
要点つぎ当て、傷当て、つぎ当てる
意味
- (補修・補強のための)つぎ当て;当て布;当て板,当て金;(アップリケで縫いつけた)布切れ
- (傷口などを覆う)傷当て
- (色などが周囲と区別できる)(…の)まだら,班点;断片,破片《+of+名》
- 小さな地面(畑)
- (補修・補強のために)…につぎ当てる;(装飾のために)…に当て布をする
- …をつぎ合わせて作る
例文
Apparently, they're trying to patch up their marriage.
見たところ、彼らは結婚の危機を修復しようとしている。
John and I have patched up our troubles.
ジョンとは仲直りした。
My mother had to patch my pants.
母さんは私のパンツにパッチをしなくちゃいけなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).