steep
要点傾斜の急な
意味
- 傾斜の急な,急勾配(こうばい)の
- 《話》極端な,途方もない
- (液体に)…を浸す,つける《+名+in+名》
- (悪などに)を染まらせる《+名+in+名》
- (液体に)浸っている《+in+名》
- 浸す(される)こと;つける液体
例文
From this point the climb suddenly became steep.
この地点から登りが急に険しくなった。
The steep path is the sole access to the border.
険しいその道を行く以外に、国境へ辿り着く方法はない。
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
険しい山道を登るには、はじめはゆっくり登らなくてはいけない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English steep, from Old English stēap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”). Compare Old Frisian stāp ("high, towering"; > Modern Saterland Frisian stiep (“steep”)), Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”). The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.