shell gamesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Among the most well-known games of monoawase were utaawase (poetry match), eawase (picture match), and kaiawase (shell match), as well as toriawase (bird match) (also known as tokei [cockfight]), hanaawase (flower match) (also known as hanaikusa [flower battle]), kotoriawase (bird bench show), mushiawase (insect match), senzaiawase (plant match), ogiawase (fan match), and biwaawase (lute match).発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

代表的なものには、歌合・絵合・貝合などがあり、その他にも鳥合（闘鶏）・花合（花いくさ）・小鳥合（こちらは小鳥の品評会）・虫合・前栽合・扇合・琵琶合など。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Originally, kaiawase was played among nobilities as a kind of awasemono (games in which people gather each bringing something of the same kind to decide which is better) in competition for the beautiful coloring, shape, and rarity of the shells, or the superiority of uta (poetry) composed with the shell itself as its subject matter.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

本来の貝合わせは、合わせものの一つとして貝殻の色合いや形の美しさ、珍しさを競ったり、その貝を題材にした歌を詠んでその優劣を競い合ったりする貴族たちの遊びであった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Particularly in recent times, Origuchi explained that makurakotoba had derived from the proverb, had common characteristics with the words of norito (Shinto prayer), were special words which had magically signified power, had become a mere shell or dead letter in the later generations, and had changed into something like rhetorical games, and this explanation has been widely supported by the learned society.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

とくに近代になって、折口が諺を由来に持ち、祝詞の言葉などと共通性を持つ、呪力を持った特別な言葉(らいふ・いんできす)であり、それが後世になって形骸化していき、だんだんと言語遊戯的なものとなっていったと説明しており、学会では広く支持されている（）。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス