plot
要点小区画の土地、筋、陰謀、ひそかに計画する、名,、陰謀を企てる
意味
- 小区画の土地,小地所
- (小説・劇などの)筋,プロット
- 陰謀,たくらみ
- 〈悪事〉をひそかに計画する,たくらむ
- (地図・海図などに)…を書き込む;…の図表(図面)を作る
- 〈土地〉を区画する《+out+名,+名+out》
- (…に対して…の)陰謀を企てる,たくらむ《+against+名+about(toward)+名(doing)》
例文
He was ignorant of the plot to assassinate him.
彼は自分を暗殺しようという陰謀を知らなかった。
Investigators uncovered an assassination plot.
捜査員らは暗殺計画を摘発しました。
The general participated in the plot with his men.
将軍は部下とともにその陰謀に加わった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”); or alternatively, perhaps from a rebracketing of Old English land-splott (“small portion, or plot, of ground”) taken as landes-plot (“plot of land”). Compare Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence and reinforcement of noun sense 8. Noun sense 12 is a back-formation from for the plot.