twiceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier twise, from 中期英語 twies, twiȝes, from 古期英語 twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence 中期英語 twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twice”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) +‎ -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.

発音

• IPA: /twaɪs/, [tw̥aɪs]
• 韻: -aɪs

副詞

twice (not comparable)

1. Two times.

   You should brush your teeth twice a day.

   No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. (1947, Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1)

   • 1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan:

     I've done with my tirade. The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

   • 1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”:

     Santa Claus is coming to town / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Santa Claus is coming to town

   • 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 22 March 2022:

     Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers.
     For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.

2. (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
   • 1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78:

     Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.

   • 1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304:

     You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.

   • 1952, Peter Lincoln Spencer, Building mathematical concepts in the elementary school, page 139:

     MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.

   • 1957 October, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:

     This was eventually absorbed in the enlarged Victoria Station which was brought into use at the end of March, 1884, providing twice as much platform accommodation as the old one.

   • 1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18:

     Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.

同意語

• double
• doubly
• two times
• See also Thesaurus:twice

派生語

参考

• once
• thrice
• two-time