shatter
要点粉々に打ち砕く、壊す、粉々になる
意味
- 〈物〉を粉々に打ち砕く,粉砕する
- (回復の余地なく)〈計画・健康・希望など〉を壊す
- 粉々になる
例文
The cup fell to the ground, shattering to pieces.
コップは床に落ちて、粉々に割れた。
The priceless china shattered into fragments.
とても高価な陶器がめちゃめちゃに割れてしまった。
The vase crashed and shattered into pieces.
花瓶が粉々に割れた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.