smile
要点ほほえむ、ほほえみ
意味
- ほほえむ,にっこりする
〈好運・神などが〉(…に)好意を示す《+on(upon)+名》
《a+形容詞+smileを目的語にして》…な笑い方をする
…をほほえんで示す
〈人〉にほほえみかけて(…)させる(させない)《+名〈人〉+into(out of)+名(doing)》
ほほえみ,微笑
例文
She smiled at me as she passed me in the street.
彼女は通りですれ違う時に私に微笑みかけた。
The teacher acknowledged the pupil with a smile.
先生は生徒に気づいてにっこりと答えた。
She held back her anger, and smiled graciously.
彼女は怒りをこらえ、にっこりと微笑した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).