fazeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• phase (see notes)
• feaze

語源

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from 中期英語 fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from 古期英語 fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”).

Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fāz, IPA: /feɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /fæɪz/
• Homophone: phase
• 韻: -eɪz

動詞

faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

1. (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]

   Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.

   • 1965, Catullus, translated by Barriss Mills, The Carmina of Catullus: A Verse Translation, [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Purdue University Studies, →OCLC, carminum 42, page 71:

     But we're / Not getting anywhere. Nothing / fazes her.

   • 1978, “Living in a Dream”, in On the Edge, performed by Sea Level:

     In the dreary world / That we're living in / It's fashionable / To let nothing faze you

   • 1990, “Assessment”, in Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Report of a Study by a Committee of the Institute of Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, section III (Aspects of Treatment), pages 252–253:

     Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.

   • 2009, Richard Wigmore, The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 192:

     He sticks it out even further in the scherzo, fazing the listener with displaced accents, and then inserting a malicious pause just when we seem to have found our feet.

   • 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian‎, London, archived from the original on 28 March 2018:

     [Gareth] Southgate should be absolutely clear now that [Jordan] Pickford is not fazed by the big occasion but, on the flip-side, he might not be too thrilled his goalkeeper was involved so much.

使用する際の注意点

The spelling phase is sometimes erroneously used for faze.

派生語

• unfazeable
• unfazed

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