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せわ 世話

1

〈めんどう〉	care; trouble
〈助力〉	help; assistance; 【形式ばった表現】 aid

世話する

take care [charge] of

help

【形式ばった表現】 aid

【形式ばった表現】 give assistance 《to》

子供の世話をする

look after children

病人の世話をする

look after [take care of, 【形式ばった表現】 tend, 【形式ばった表現】 attend on] a sick person

余計な世話を焼く

meddle in [with] 《somebody's private affairs》

poke one's nose into 《somebody's business》

世話になっている

be under the care 《of somebody》

be indebted to 《somebody for something》.

用例

彼にはたいして世話になってはいない. We don't have much to be thankful to him for. たいへんお世話になりました. Many thanks for your kindness [kind help]. できることなら親父の世話になりたくないんだが. I would not be a burden upon my father, if I could help it. 君に世話なんか焼いてもらいたくないね. I will thank you to leave my affairs alone. 大きな[余計な]お世話だ. This is none of your business.

2

〈迷惑〉

世話をかける

trouble

put somebody to trouble

世話の焼ける

troublesome

世話の焼ける[焼けない]赤ん坊

a difficult [an easy] baby

世話を焼かす

give [cause] somebody a lot of trouble

put somebody to a great deal of trouble.

用例

世話を焼かせてすみません. I'm sorry to put you to so much trouble. それが一番世話なしだろう. That would be the simplest plan.

3

〈紹介, 斡旋〉

【形式ばった表現】 good [kind] offices; (a) recommendation

就職の世話をする

find [get] somebody a job [position]

【形式ばった表現】 put somebody in the way of making a living

…の世話で

【形式ばった表現】 through the good offices of…

at the recommendation of…

用例

山田さんにお世話いただいてこの会社に就職しました. Mr. Yamada helped me find a job at this company. 息子に誰かよい家庭教師を世話してくださいませんか. Could you introduce my son to a good private tutor?

世話好き

世話好きな

obliging

kind

世話女房

a good [practical] housewife

a devoted wife

世話人[役]

〈周旋者〉 a go‐between; a mediator; an agent

〈発起人〉 an organizer; a sponsor

〈面倒を見る人〉 a manager

世話物

【劇】 a drama dealing with common people's life

世話焼き

〈お節介な人〉 an interfering [an officious, a meddlesome] person; a busybody.

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世話

読み方 せわ

名詞

1

（＝助力）help; aid; assistance:（=する） to help; to aid; to assist

用例

できることならお前を世話してやりたいが
I would help you if I could.

伯（叔）父が世話してくれると申します
My uncle offers to help me.

あの男の世話をして迷惑した者が一人や二人じゃない
Several people have got into trouble through helping that man.

あれは義理一遍で世話をしているのだ
I help him as a matter of duty.

世話になる
to receive help―receive assistance

あなたのお世話になろうと思って参りました
I have been looking to you for assistance.

あの男は世話し甲斐があった
I have not assisted him for nothing.

2

（＝周旋）good offices; kind offices:（=する） to procure, secure （one a position）; to get （one a berth）; to find （one a person）

用例

好い口があったらお世話を願います
I shall request your good offices when there is a good opening.

友人の世話で会社へ入りました
I have entered the company's service through a friend―through the good offices of a friend.

あの人の世話で相談がまとまった
The matter was settled through his kind offices.

田中君の世話で今の地位を得ました
I have secured my position through Mr. Tanaka―Mr. Tanaka has secured me my present position―procured me my present position.

どこか好いところへお世話しよう
I will procure you some good position―find you some good position―get you a good berth―（嫁入口の意味なら）―find a good husband for you.

しかるべき地位があったらお世話下さい
If you come across a suitable position, you will please procure it for me.

女中を一人世話してくれんか
Will you find me a maid-servant?

それより奥さんをお世話しよう
I would rather find you a wife.

3

（＝扱い）care; charge:（=する） to care for （one's children）; to take care of （a child）; to take charge of （an orphan）; to look after （the children）; to mind （the children）; to tend （the shop）; to attend to （the sick）; to look to （one's comfort）; to minister to （one's wants）; to see to, see about （a matter）

用例

子どもの世話をする
（親なら）to care for one's children―（他人なら）―take care of the children―look after the children―mind the children

あの子は（孤児で）世話のし手が無い
She has no one to care for her.

子どもの世話をする女が欲しい
I want a female to take care of the children.

あれは子どもの世話をしている女です
She is the female in charge of the children.

孤児はある慈善家が引取って世話をした
A benevolent person took charge of the orphan.

孤児は自活のできるようになるまで俺が世話をしてやろう
I will take charge of him till he can shift for himself.

子どもの世話が行き届いている
The children are well cared for.

子どもの世話をする者が無い（から継子扱いだ）
The children are left to take care of themselves.

病院の世話をする
to care for the invalid―attend to the sick―look to one's comfort―minister to one's wants

病院の世話を頼む
Please see the sick well cared for!

親身も及ばぬ世話ぶり
She cared for him better than his own people could have done.

生徒の世話をする
to have the care of students

この生徒らはだれが世話をしているか
Who has the care of these students?―Under whose care are these students?

僕が世話をしている生徒にもこの本を使っている
I use this book with the students under my care.

あの生徒らは五年間世話をして来た
I have had the care of those students―had those students under my care―for five years.

先生、宅の小僧のお世話をお願い申します
I wish to place my boy under your care.

宿屋の女中がお客の世話をする
The chambermaid attends to the guests.

あの女中が下宿人の世話をする
She does for the lodgers.

牛の世話をする男が要る
We want a man to look after the cows―to tend the cows.

あれが牛の世話をする男だ
He is the man in charge of the cows.

店の世話をする
to take care of the shop―attend to the shop―tend the shop―mind the ship

今晩はここに泊まるからふとんの世話を頼む
I shall stay here for the night, so please look to my bedding―see to my bedding―see about my bedding.

篤く世話をする
to take good care of one

あの男は世話し甲斐があった
He has well repaid my care.

4

（＝親切）goodness; （a） kindness; a favour; a service; a good turn; a debt; attentions; obligations; interest:（=する） to be good to （one）; to be kind to （one）; to be friendly to （one）; to show （one） kindness; to do （one） a kindness; to do （one） a favour; to do （one） a service; to do （one） a good turn; to pay （one） attentions; to lay （one） under obligations; to take interest in （one）

用例

あの方にはお世話になりました
He has been good to me―kind to me―He has done me a kindness―done me a favour―done me a service―done me a good turn―laid me under obligations―I lie under obligations to him―I owe him a debt of gratitude.

いろいろお世話になりました
He has done me many kindnesses―I lie under obligations to him.

お世話になっているから何を頼まれても否と言えぬ
I lie under such obligations to him that I can refuse him nothing.

このたびはお世話さまでした
Thank you for your kindness!―I am obliged to you―You have laid me under an obligation.

あの婦人には病気中世話になった
She was good to me in my illness.

病気中は一方ならぬお世話になりました
I thank you for your exceeding goodness to me in my illness.

あの人は人の世話になることが嫌いだ
He does not like to lie under obligations.

君のお世話にゃならぬ
I ask no favour of you―（を略して）―I ask nothing of you.

あの先生は書生の世話が好きだ
He takes interest in students.

よく後進の世話をする
He takes a kindly interest in his juniors.

我が子のように僕を世話してくれる
He takes a fatherly interest in me―He was a second father to me.

女将がやれそれと世話をしてくれた
The landlady paid me great attentions.

ただならぬ世話ぶりであった
She was assiduous in her attentions.

彼は死んだ兄の子をよく世話する
He does well by his brother's children.

近所の人達がいろいろ世話をしてくれます
My neighbours are very friendly to me.

お世話になりついでにまたお世話になりましょう
As I owe you a debt, I may as well increase my debt.

世話になった人
one's patron―one's benefactor

世話になった人には頭が上がらぬ
One must be humble before one's benefactor.

5

（＝厄介）dependence

用例

親の世話になる
to depend on one's father

まだ親の世話になっているか（親の脛を噛っているか）
Are you still dependent on your father?

子が親の世話になるのは当たり前だ
It is quite natural that a child should depend on his parents.

できるなら親の世話になりたくない
I do not wish to be a burden to my father if I can help it.

親父が死んでから伯（叔）父の世話になっております
I have lived with my uncle since my father died.

6

（＝干渉）meddling

用例

世話を焼く
to meddle―（は悪い意味、善い意味には）―make oneself useful

彼は店の世話を焼いている
He makes himself useful in the shop.

万事に世話を焼いている
He makes himself generally useful.

出発の際にはいろいろ世話を焼いてくれた
He made himself useful to me in various ways at my departure.

彼はなんでもかでも世話を焼きたがる
He meddles in everything―pokes his nose into everything―has a finger in every pie.

人のことに余計な世話を（要らぬ世話）を焼く
to meddle in others' affairs

お世話を焼いて貰いますまい
No meddling in my affairs, please!―I will thank you to leave my affairs alone.

大きなお世話だ
Mind your own business!―That's none of your business.

あれはお世話焼きで困る
He is a meddler―a busybody.

7

（＝面倒）trouble

用例

世話を焼かせる
to give one trouble

あの女はずいぶん世話を焼かせやがった
She has caused me much trouble―led me a pretty dance.

お前は世話の焼ける子だね
You are a troublesome child.

子どもらは世話が焼ききれない
The children give me a lot of trouble.

今は教員を養成する世話が無い
You need not go to the trouble of―need not be at the trouble of―training teachers.

ここに住めば車を抱える世話が無い
If I live here, I need not go to the trouble and expense of keeping a kuruma.

あれまでに育て上げればもう世話はありません
Now that he is quite grown up, there is no more trouble for you.

食ってしまえば世話は無いや
If you eat them up, there is no trouble―that's the easiest way.

取る金を片っ端から使ってしまえば世話は無い
If you spend as you earn, that's the simplest plan.

自分でそう思っていりゃ世話は無いや
If you think so yourself, that is the best way.

8

（＝人の扶助を受けること）bounty

用例

友人達の世話になるのはいやだ
I don't like to subsist on the bounty of my friends.

9

（＝人を泊めること）hospitality

用例

人の家に世話になる
to impose upon one's hospitality

それではお世話になりましょうか
Then I shall accept your hospitality.

人の家に世話になるのは心苦しい
It goes against my conscience to impose upon people's hospitality.

この上お世話になっては済まないから
I shall be sorry to impose upon your hospitality any more.

長く世話になった礼を言った
I thanked him for his long hospitality.

10

（＝妾を抱えること）keeping （a mistress）

用例

そのお方が私を世話して下さると仰有いました
He offered to keep me as mistress.

あの女優は成金の世話になっているのだ
She is kept by an upstart.

お前は誰かの世話になっているのか
Are you kept by anybody?―Are you anybody's mistress?

誰の世話になっているのか
Who is your patron?

11

（＝世俗）the common world

用例

世話に砕ける
to use a common expression―use familiar language

世話に砕けていえば
To use a common expression―in common parlance.

JMdict

世話

読み方：せわ

（名詞、サ変名詞） looking after; help; aid; assistance

JST科学技術用語日英対訳辞書

世話

care; help; trouble

英和医学用語集

世話

care

ライフサイエンス辞書

世話

*** せわ

(n) (vt) care ****

(vt) care for ***

関連語

看護, 好む, 心配, 注意, 治療, 介護, ケア

用例

care [介護]

Because of the reduction in hospital admissions, the overall cost of care was $460 less per patient in the treatment group. (N Engl J Med)

care [看護]

We examined hospitals' performance on 18 standardized indicators of the quality of care for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. (N Engl J Med)

care [世話]

Mature female sperm whales live in socially cohesive groups of 10-30, within which there is communal care of the young. (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA)

care for [〜のケア]

Hospice care may improve the quality of end-of-life care for nursing home residents, but hospice is underutilized by this population, at least in part because physicians are not aware of their patients' preferences. (JAMA)

The results of the chemotherapy trials have resulted in new standards of care for this disease. (Curr Opin Oncol)

day care [(昼間の介護)デイケア]

The risk of transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in day care centers and schools is low. (JAMA)

medical care [医療]

Malaria causes much physical and economic hardship in tropical regions, particularly in communities where medical care is rudimentary. (Nature)

用例

care for [〜のケア]

Hospice care may improve the quality of end-of-life care for nursing home residents, but hospice is underutilized by this population, at least in part because physicians are not aware of their patients' preferences. (JAMA)

The results of the chemotherapy trials have resulted in new standards of care for this disease. (Curr Opin Oncol)

cared for [看護された]

Three cohort studies of patients cared for in HIV clinics in Europe between 1996 and 2000. (JAMA)

caring for [〜の看護]

To identify factors associated with prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics by physicians caring for patients with nonpneumonic acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs). (JAMA)

careの共起表現

日本語WordNet(英和)

世話

【動詞】

1 help, aid, assist

助けたり援助する

(give help or assistance)

Everyone helped out during the earthquake 地震の間、誰もが助けを呼んだ Can you help me carry this table? あなたはこのテーブルを運ぶのを手伝ってくれますか？ She never helps around the house 彼女は家の近所の支援しない

2 attend, take care, see, look

取り仕切る、あるいは扱う

(take charge of or deal with)

Could you see about lunch? 昼食を手配していただけますか？ I must attend to this matter 私はこの問題に注意しなければならない

【名詞】

1 care, attention, tending, aid

誰かまたは何かに処遇を施したり、または注意を払うこと

(the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)

no medical care was required 治療は必要でなかった the old car needs constant attention その古い車は絶えず手入れが必要だ

2 service, help, avail

役に立つ手段

(a means of serving)

of no avail 何の効用もない there's no help for it どうしようもない

>>「世話」に関する類語一覧

日英・英日専門用語辞書

世話

attendance，care for

クロスランゲージ 37分野専門語辞書

世話

care; service