stance
意味
- 態度,立場
- スタンス(ゴルフ・野球などで打球のときの足の位置)
例文
This is the stance of someone who's going for a home run.
この構えはホームラン狙ってるな。
Western countries are jumping on Japan for its stance on the issue.
西欧諸国はこの問題に対する日本の姿勢を激しく非難しています。
He took an uncertain stance.
彼はあいまいな態度をとった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stō (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”) and a doublet of stanza. The verb is derived from the noun. Compare typologically Czech postoj (“stance (the way of holding a body); stance (point of view)”) (cognate via PIE).