trough
意味
- (細長い箱形の)水おけ,水盤;かいばおけ
- (雨・採鉱用の)とい
- (波と波との間,峰と峰の間などの)細長いくぼみ,谷間
- (気圧の)谷
例文
He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.
まっすぐにすわり、かいばおけをつつく動物のように皿の上にかがみこまない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
PIE word *dóru From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”). See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.