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よのなか 世の中

1

〈世間〉	the world
〈人生〉	life

世の中へ出る

start life

go out into the world

世の中がいやになる

be [get] sick (and tired) of the world

be no longer interested in living on in this world

用例

これからの世の中はどうなることやら. I'm sure I don't know what the world's coming to. 世の中はそうしたものだ. That's the way things are [it goes].｜【形式ばった表現】 That is the way of the world.｜《口語》 That's the way the cookie crumbles. およそ世の中にあれほどずるがしこいやつはいない. There is no craftier man in the world today. 世の中ってわからないもんですね. Life is unpredictable.｜In this life it is difficult to predict how things will turn out. まったく世の中はさまざまだ. It takes all sorts (of people) to make a world.

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〈時勢〉	the times
〈時代〉	【形式ばった表現】 the age.

用例

世の中の移り変わりでこんな所を訪れる人はほとんどいなくなった. Changes in fashion have meant that hardly anyone ever visits a place like this any more. 今は原子力の世の中だと言っても過言ではありますまい. It is surely no exaggeration to say that this is the age of atomic power.

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世の中

読み方 よのなか

名詞

The world; life; times; things; men and things

用例

世の中を見る
to see the world

彼はなかなか世の中を見ている
He has seen much of life―He is a man of the world.

世の中を見ない
He has seen nothing of life―seen little of life.

世の中の事情に通じている
He is in touch with the world―in touch with the times.

世の中の事情に疎い
He is out of touch with the times―out of touch with the world―ignorant of the world.

世の中へ出る
to go out into the world―start in life

世の中へ出るとそんなウカウカしたことではいかん
You must have all your wits about you when you go out into the world.

彼は幼い時に世の中へ出てずいぶん苦労している
He was thrown upon the world in his infancy, and had many difficulties to contend with.

世の中は広い
The world is wide―（ここばかり日は照らぬの意味なら）―I have all the world before me.

世の中は広いようで狭い
The world is not so wide as it seems.

世の中はそうしたものだ
That is the way of the world―Such is life.

世の中は好くしたものだ
Things are well ordered―Everything is for the best.

世の中はこんなものだと諦めた
I take the world as it is―take things as they are.

今は昔と世の中が違う
The times have changed―Things are not what they were.

世の中は移り変わる
The times change.

せち辛い世の中だ
The times are hard―We live in hard times.

世の中は静かだ
All is silent―All is quiet.

世の中は真暗だ
All is dark.

世の中は騒がしい
The people are alarmed.

物騒な世の中だ
Here is an alarming state of things.

今は便利な世の中だ
This is the age of conveniences.

当節は金の世の中
Money is everything nowadays.

世の中は金次第
“Money makes the mare to go.”

当節は運動の世の中だ
Everything goes by interest nowadays.

いまに飛行機の世の中になる
Flying will soon be all the rage―all the mode―all the go.

JMdict

世の中

読み方：よのなか

（名詞） society; the world; the times

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世の中

life; world; society