soothe
英検準1級なだめる・和らげる
意味
- 〈人・神経など〉をなだめる,静める
- 〈痛みなど〉を和らげる
例文
This medicine will soothe your headache.
この薬で頭痛はおさまるでしょう。
Music has a charm that soothes even the savage's breast.
音楽は野蛮人の胸をなだめすかす魅力がある。
A gift of cheesecake is apparently good to soothe discord.
波風を鎮めるにはチーズケーキのお土産が良いらしいですよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English sothen (“to verify, prove the validity of”), from Old English sōþian (“to verify, prove, confirm, bear witness to”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþōn, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną (“to prove, certify, acknowledge, testify”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Cognate with Danish sande (“to verify”), Swedish sanna (“to verify”), Icelandic sanna (“to verify”). See also sooth. Displaced Old English frēfran, ġefrēfran (“to comfort, console, soothe”), and partially displaced Old English stillan, ġestillan (“to calm, become calm, pacify, quieten”) (whence modern still).