steam
要点蒸気、[水]蒸気を出す
意味
- 蒸気,湯気,水蒸気
- 蒸気の力
- 《話》力,精,力,元気
- …を蒸気にさらす,蒸す
- [水]蒸気を出す,湯気をたてる《+away》
- 《副詞[句]を伴って》蒸気で動く
- 《話》怒る,いきまく
例文
I don't know why they are so steamed off at us.
彼らがなぜ私達にそんなにそんなに腹を立てているのかわからない。
Steam trains were replaced by electric trains.
蒸気機関車は電車に取って代わられた。
When I wear a mask, my glasses get steamed up.
マスクをつけると眼鏡が曇る。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).