ゴリラ
解説 Definition
ゴリラという動物の意味です。日本語の「ゴリラ」と同じで、大型の類人猿を指します。
A gorilla is a very large, powerfully built African ape that lives mainly in forests and moves chiefly on the ground. Gorillas are primates and are closely related to humans, but they are not monkeys.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
gorilla は大型の類人猿「ゴリラ」で、英語でも日本語とほぼ同じ音です。動物なら a gorilla、複数なら gorillas とします。綴りの似た guerrilla は「ゲリラ兵・ゲリラ活動」で語源も意味も別物なので、動物園や森林の場面と結び付けて区別しましょう。
The Japanese loanword makes the basic meaning easy: a gorilla is the large African ape seen in forests or zoos. Build a precise usage memory with a gorilla for one animal and gorillas for more than one. Typical phrases include a young gorilla, a mountain gorilla, and a gorilla at the zoo. Pay special attention to guerrilla, whose spelling is similar but whose meaning and history are unrelated: a guerrilla is a member of an irregular fighting group. The extra ue can remind you that guerrilla belongs to a different word family.
例文
The gorilla is very big.
そのゴリラはとても大きいです。
We saw a gorilla at the zoo.
私たちは動物園でゴリラを見ました。
A young gorilla climbed the tree.
若いゴリラが木に登りました。
gorilla の類義語・関連語
gorilla の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古代ギリシャ語のgorillai（毛深い女たちの部族）に由来。カルタゴの航海者ハンノがアフリカで遭遇した生物の記録から、1847年に英語の学名として採用された。語根は西アフリカの現地語とも言われる。関連語: guerrilla（綴りは似るが無関係）。
The zoological name gorilla was adopted in the nineteenth century from Greek Gorillai, a term preserved in an ancient account associated with the Carthaginian explorer Hanno. That account applied the name to hairy beings encountered on an African voyage, although exactly what was observed is uncertain. The modern animal name was formally introduced for the ape in 1847 and is unrelated to guerrilla.
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