relish
英検準1級楽しむ・好む・味わい
意味
- (食物の独特の)風味
- 調味料,薬味
- 《通例否定文で》(…に対する)興味,好み《+for+名》
- 《時にa~》おもしろみ,興趣
- 〈物・事〉を楽しむ,好む
- (…の)味がする,風味がある《+of+名》
例文
He did not relish this simple family life.
彼にはこの単調な家庭生活がおもしろくなかった。
Dangers give relish to an adventure.
危険があるので冒険がおもしろいのだ。
Danger gives relish to adventure.
危険があるので冒険がおもしろいのだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
The noun is a variant of release (“(obsolete) odour, scent”), from Middle English reles, relese (“odour, scent; taste; efficacy, power”), probably from Anglo-Norman reles, relais, or Old French reles, relais (“that which is left behind, remainder, residue”), from relaisser, relaschier (“to liberate, release; to relax”) (modern French relâcher), from Latin relaxāre, the present active infinitive of relaxō (“to stretch out or widen again, loosen, slacken; (figurative) to ease, relax”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + laxō (“to release, undo; to relax”) (from laxus (“spacious, wide; loose, slack”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg- (“to slacken; to tire out”)) +…