shirtsleeveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shirtsleeve (plural shirtsleeves)

1. Alternative form of shirt sleeve
   • 1996 July, Mark Anthony Rolo, “Brown Faces in Blue Uniforms”, in Journal of American Indian Higher Education, volume 7, number 1:

     The patches on their shirtsleeves read, "Tribal Law Enforcement."

   • 2004, Louise Wareham, Since You Ask, →ISBN, page 140:

     He pulled me to a pillar, pushing up my shirtsleeve and looking again at the skin in the crook of my arm.

   • 2014 summer, Thomas G. Matyók, Hannah Rose Mendoza, Cathryne Schmitz, “Deep Analysis: Designing Complexity into Our Understanding of Conflict”, in InterAgency Journal, volume 5:

     The desire to roll-up shirtsleeves and get down to work tackling conflict and violence is certainly laudable; however, the desire for action cannot be allowed to push analysis out of the peacebuilding process.

形容詞

shirtsleeve (comparative more shirtsleeve, superlative most shirtsleeve)

1. Alternative form of shirt-sleeve
   • 1976, Newsweek Magazine, quoted in: Harry Bruinius, For Jimmy Carter, a life of service, defined by faith, in: The Christian Science Monitor, December 29 2024

     “At least part of the stir over Carter’s shirtsleeve religiosity is that he seems to practice what he preaches,” Newsweek magazine mused a few days after the “born again” question made headlines across the country. “Kennedy went to Mass and Richard Nixon spoke affectionately of his Quaker mother, but neither appeared to be truly religious.”

アナグラム

• silver sheet, silver-sheet, theirselves

形容詞

shirt-sleeve (not comparable)

1. Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business.

   He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.

2. (space flight, of an environment) That allows working without the need of wearing a spacesuit.
   • 2008, Janet Ferl, Linda Hewes, Lindsay Aitchinson, Victor Koscheyev, Gloria Leon, Ed Hodgson, Frank Sneeringer, “Trade Study of an Exploration Cooling Garment”, in 38th International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA, →DOI, →ISSN:

     The Exploration Cooling Garment shall allow a crewmember to maintain their nominal shirt-sleeve range of motion.

名詞

shirt-sleeve (plural shirt-sleeves)

1. Alternative form of shirt sleeve
   • 1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond:

     Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!

   • 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book III (Casualties: 1925), page 153:

     But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.

アナグラム

• silver sheet, silver-sheet, theirselves