shear
要点名,
意味
- 〈毛・羊毛など〉を刈り取る,刈る,刈り込む《+off(away)+名,+名+off(away)》;(…から)…を刈り取る《+名+from(off)+名》;〈羊など〉の毛を刈る
- 《しばしば受動態で》(…を)〈人〉からはぎ取る,奪い取る《+名〈人〉+of+名》
- 大ばさみ,植木ばさみ
例文
The disease sheared him of his physical strength.
病気が彼の体力を奪い取った。
They usually shear sheep in spring.
彼等は普通春に羊の毛を刈る。
Their job is to shear the sheep.
彼らの仕事は羊の毛を刈ることだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German, Dutch, and German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Faroese and Icelandic skera, (borrowed from Germanic) Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Kamkata-viri ċarë́- (“to chop”), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.