al beitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɔːlˈbiː.ɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɔlˈbi.ət/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑlˈbi.ɪt/
• ハイフネーション: al‧be‧it

接続詞

albeit

1. Although, despite (it) being.

   Synonyms: as much as, though; see also Thesaurus:even though

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 170:

     VVho are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſvveare that I do knovv your tongue.

   • 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 92:

     The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.

   • 2007 June 17, Ellen Marrus, Houston Chronicle:

     There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.

   • 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67 – 3 Romania”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 31 October 2019:

     Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.

   • 2019 March 7, Zachary B. Wolf, “8 times Democrats clashed with each other since taking power”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 8 March 2019:

     Pelosi eventually agreed to self-impose term limits, albeit with an escape clause.

使用する際の注意点

• The word albeit historically also introduced an independent clause as although does (as in the Shakespearean quote above); however, after the Early Modern English period, it ceased to do so, and today only introduces a noun phrase, adjectival phrase, adverbial phrase, or dependent clause.
• Rarely, albethey is used when the meaning is “despite (the multiple things) being” rather than “despite (the single thing) being”; this is nonstandard, based on a reanalysis of albeit.

別の表記

• albe, albethey

関連する語

• howbeit
• sobeit

アナグラム

• albite, betail, libate