scandal
要点醜聞
意味
- 醜聞,スキャンダル
- 恥,不面目
- (スキャンダルに対する人々の)義憤,反感,物議
- (…についての)中傷,陰口,悪口《+about(over)+名》
例文
The bribery scandal created a backlash overseas.
収賄スキャンダルは海外で激しい反発を生みました。
I think he has something to do with that scandal.
彼は例のスキャンダルと関係があると思う。
I don't think Tom was involved in the scandal.
トムはその不祥事に関わってなかったと思うんだけど。
語源
ギリシャ語skandalon「わな・つまずきの石」から。人をつまずかせる悪い行い世間の憤り「醜聞」。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.