A boundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbaʊnd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈbaʊnd/
• 韻: -aʊnd

動詞

abound (third-person singular simple present abounds, present participle abounding, simple past and past participle abounded)

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18 century.]
3. (intransitive) To be highly productive.
4. (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

   Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 5:20:

     Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.

   • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:

     One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].

   • 2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 May 2014:

     Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.

5. (intransitive) To revel in. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 18 century.]
6. To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]

   The wilderness abounds in traps.

   This pond abounds with fish.

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108:

     I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.

   • 1858-1860, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World

     the wild boar, which abounds both in Azerbijan and in the country about Hamadan

使用する際の注意点

• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

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参考

• bountiful

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