ramp
意味
- 詐欺,かたり
- (病院・ガレージ・立体高速道路の出入口などの)傾斜通路,ランプ
- (飛行機の)タラップ
例文
I'm near the on ramp to 25 north.
２５号線北方面の入り口付近にいます。
Three men jumped out and rolled the old mower down the ramp from the truck to the ground.
３人の男が飛び降り、古い芝刈り機をトラックと地面にかけた板で降ろした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.