strong
要点力の強い、じょうぶな、がんじょうな、強い
意味
- (身体的に)力の強い
- (身体が)じょうぶな,健康な
- 勢力(権力)のある,有力な
- (物が)がんじょうな,堅固な
- (精神的・道徳的に)強い
- 説得力のある,効果的な
- (味・においが)いやな,不快な
- (動きが)激しい,速い
- (程度が)強い,強烈な,濃い
- アルコール分の多い
- 《数詞の後に用いて》…の人員の
- 強く,強力に;激しく,盛んに
例文
The wind was so strong that the windows rattled.
風がとても強かったので、窓ががたがた音をたてた。
There was a strong smell of cannabis in the air.
空気中には、大麻の強烈な臭いが漂っていた。
There is a strong presumption against its truth.
それが間違っている可能性が非常に強い。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang (“strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *strang (“severe, strict, rigorous, strong”), from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), West Frisian strang, string (“strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough, strong, intense”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), dialectal Dutch strang (“tight, strict, powerful, intense, mighty, strong”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Danish and Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”),…