tall
要点高い、背たけ(高さ)が…の
意味
- (背の)高い
- 《補語にのみ用いて》背たけ(高さ)が…の
- 《話》(話などが)大げさな,誇張した
- (程度・量が)法外な,ものすごい
例文
He's too tall to stand up straight in this room.
彼は背が高すぎて、この部屋ではまっすぐに立てない。
He said, pointing at where tall grass is growing.
草の長く伸びている所を指差して言いました。
I sat behind a very tall person at the theater.
私は劇場でとても背の高い人の後ろに座った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”). Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).