Schwungとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Schwung

1. (idiomatic, uncommon) Drive, energy, or verve.
   • 1901, Edwing Waugh, John Trafford Clegg, Oliver Ormeord, Miss Lahee, “The Lancashire Memorial”, in The Northern Counties Magazine‎, volume 1, page 360:

     Now in regard to the points here raised by Mr. Brown it might perhaps be replied that the schwung alluded to belonged to the man, not the dialect, and that Tennyson could never have restricted himself to the Lincolnshire dialect, his outlook on the world and his knowledge of life necessarily overstepping such boundaries as these.

   • 1931, Berta Ruck, Offer of Marriage, page 12:

     Crisp turn-out, a waft of scent and face-powder, a laugh, a glance, a dash of chic, of schwung and pep, the twinkling of nimble legs on and off the train step.

   • 1981, Adrianus Franciscus Maria de Jong, Natural 14C Variations, page 1:

     At that time, it was Suess, who drew with "cosmic Schwung" medium-term variations through his own data.