pearl
要点真珠
意味
- 真珠,パール
- (形・光沢などが)真珠のようなもの
- (真珠のように)価値のあるもの(人),傑出したもの(人)
- =mother-of-pearl
- (またpearl gray)真珠色
- 真珠の[ような]
- 真珠色の
- 真珠を採取する
例文
Your wonderful lecture was pearls before swine.
君のせっかくの名講義は猫に小判だったね。
She likes the beautiful pearl necklace very much.
彼女はその美しい真珠のネックレスが大変気に入っている。
His great oration was like pearls before swine.
彼の立派な演説も豚に真珠に等しかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.