sly
要点ずるい
意味
- ずるい,陰険な
- 茶目っ気のある,いたずらっぽい
例文
I don't like him because he is sly as a fox.
彼はとてもずる賢いので私は嫌いだ。
He appears sly on the surface.
彼は表面上は陰険そうに見える。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd