torch
要点たいまつ
意味
- たいまつ
- 《米》(はんだ付けなどに用いる)トーチランプ(《英》blowlamp)
《英》=flashlight
《比喩的に》(…の)火,光,光明《+of+名》
「carry a torch for誰々」または「carry the torch for 誰々」で「誰々に片思いする」
例文
She shone her torch onto the floor before us.
懐中電灯をつけて、足元を照らしてくれた。
Place some torches so that mobs don't spawn.
モブがスポーンしないように松明を置いといて。
It was identified by telescope as a torch.
望遠鏡で見ると、それはたいまつであることがわかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche); further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”) (referring to a torch made from twisted plant fibres dipped in a flammable substance such as pitch), from Latin torqua, a variant of torquis (“collar of twisted metal, torque; wreath”), from torqueō (“to twist, wind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).