モジョ
解説 Definition
（口語）人を引きつける魅力や自信、活力、好調をもたらす特別な力。もとは、まじない、お守り、魔力を指す。
Mojo is an informal word for a special quality that gives someone confidence, personal magnetism, energy, or success. It can also refer to a charm or magical power in traditions from which the modern figurative sense developed.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
mojo は、もとの「まじない・魔力」の感覚から、現代では人を引きつける魅力、自信、好調を生む勢いを表す口語になった。have mojo は「魅力や力がある」、lose your mojo は「本来の自信や調子を失う」、get your mojo back は「調子を取り戻す」と場面ごと覚える。
Remember mojo as the special force that makes a person feel confident, attractive, effective, or “on form.” The older core involves a charm or magical power, while everyday modern English often uses the word figuratively. Someone who has lost their mojo no longer feels energetic or successful; someone who gets their mojo back recovers that spark. Learn the expressions have mojo, lose your mojo, and get your mojo back. Unlike ordinary skill, mojo suggests an elusive mixture of confidence, appeal, momentum, and luck.
例文
The team seems to have lost its mojo.
そのチームは本来の勢いを失ってしまったようだ。
Winning that match helped her get her mojo back.
その試合に勝ったことで、彼女は自信と調子を取り戻した。
mojo の類義語・関連語
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mojo の語源・成り立ち Etymology
mojo は20世紀のアメリカ英語で、クレオール系の語から入ったとされ、Gullah の moco「呪術」や Fula の moco'o「呪術師」と結びつけられます。もとは「まじない・お守り」の感覚で、そこから「人を引きつける不思議な力」や「本来の勢い」という意味へ広がったと考えると納得しやすい語です。
Mojo entered twentieth-century American English through African American cultural and linguistic traditions. It originally referred to a magical charm, spell, or the power associated with one. It has been connected with Gullah and West African terms relating to magic or a practitioner of magic. From this concrete supernatural sense, the word developed the informal figurative meanings of personal magnetism, confidence, creative energy, and winning momentum.
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