boasting
自慢する
解説 Definition
boasting は boast（自慢する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。自分の能力、持ち物、成果などを誇らしげに話すことを表し、文脈によっては少し悪い印象を与えることがあります。
Boasting is the present-participle or gerund form of boast. It means speaking with excessive or conspicuous pride about one’s abilities, possessions, or achievements, often in a way that other people find annoying.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
boasting は boast に -ing をそのまま付けた形で、発音は /ˈboʊstɪŋ/。boast about a new bike、boast of an achievement の型を覚える。単なる proud「誇りに思う」より、成果や持ち物を人に得意げに語る行為に焦点があり、too much と共に使うと否定的な響きが明確になる。
Boasting is made by adding -ing directly to boast, and it is pronounced /ˈboʊstɪŋ/. Learn it with the patterns boasting about something and boasting of an achievement. The key image is someone repeatedly telling others about a victory, skill, or expensive possession in order to appear impressive. This is stronger and often more negative than simply being proud, which can describe a private or justified feeling. In He is boasting about his bike, the continuous form emphasizes that the proud talk is happening now; as a gerund, Boasting too much names the behavior itself.
例文
He is boasting about his new bike again.
彼はまた新しい自転車のことを自慢しています。
She kept boasting about winning the contest.
彼女はコンテストで勝ったことをずっと自慢していました。
Boasting too much can make people uncomfortable.
自慢しすぎると、人を不快にさせることがあります。
boasting の類義語・関連語
boasting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
中英語 bosten（自慢する）に由来し、アングロノルマン語からの借用とされる。語根は「膨らむ・誇張する」のイメージを持ち、boastful（自慢げな）と同根。自分を大きく膨らませて見せることが「自慢」の核心にある。
Boasting is the -ing form of boast. Boast is recorded in Middle English as bosten and is generally traced through Anglo-French or a related French source, although its deeper origin is uncertain. For that reason, claims about an original root meaning “to swell” should be treated cautiously. In English, the word developed its established sense of speaking too proudly about oneself, one’s possessions, or one’s achievements. Boastful belongs to the same modern word family.
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