tore
意味
- tear の過去
例文
The policeman tore the signboard from the house.
その警官は家から看板をはがした。
It was my book that your child tore to pieces.
あなたの子供がばらばらに引き裂いたのは僕の本だ。
It was your child who tore my book to pieces.
僕の本をばらばらに引き裂いたのはあなたの子供だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.