swine
意味
- 《米》《集合的に》豚(pig)
例文
Your wonderful lecture was pearls before swine.
君のせっかくの名講義は猫に小判だったね。
His great oration was like pearls before swine.
彼の立派な演説も豚に真珠に等しかった。
This is like casting pearls before swine.
豚に真珠とはまさにこのことだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English swyn, swin; from Old English swīn; from Proto-West Germanic *swīn; from Proto-Germanic *swīną; from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). * In modern use, especially as a term of abuse, frequently a calque of German Schwein or its derivatives. * In reference to wolffish, a clipping of swinefish. Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).