意味(日本語)

流砂、あり地獄(生きている砂のこと)

語源

• quick : OE.cwic = living(生きている)

意味(英語)

• (noun) A bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to engulf any object resting on its surface.
• (noun) A place or situation into which entry can be swift and sudden but from which extrication can be difficult or impossible. Often used in the plural: "This theory of the future entrapped [them] in the quicksands of Vietnam” ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)

例文

• Do this, and you're liable to end up thinking that quicksand is something that only happens in the jungle or the desert, and that the average patch has no discernible bottom.

速く、急いで

語源

• quick : OE.cwic = living(生きている)

機敏、性急、せっかち

語源

• quick : OE.cwic = living(生きている)

水銀(生きた銀)

語源

• quick : OE.cwic = living(生きている)

早める、生命を与える

語源

• quick : OE.cwic = living(生きている)