wall
要点壁
意味
- (石・れんがなどの)壁,へい
- (胃などの)内壁,内側
- (…の)壁[のようなもの]《+of+名》
- …を壁(へい)で囲む
- …を壁で仕切る
- 〈窓・入り口など〉を壁でふさぐ《+up+名,+名+up》
例文
The wall clock of the living room is inaccurate.
リビングの掛け時計は狂ってるよ。
Simultaneous translation broke linguistic walls.
同時通訳によって言語の障壁が崩れた。
Who do you think wrote that graffiti on the wall?
壁にあの落書きを書いたのは誰だと思う？
語源
ラテン語vallum「防壁・柵」から。敵を防ぐための土の壁や柵「壁」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.