英和和英

読み方 うしなう

他動詞

1

To lose:（奪われて失う）to be deprived of, be bereft of （anything）:（没収されて失う）to forfeit （one's rights, etc.）

用例

• 明を失う
  to lose one's eyesight―go blind

• 地歩を失う
  to lose ground
• 寵を失う
  to lose one's master's favour―fall from favour―fall into disgrace
• 善い物はそれを失って始めてその価値を知る
  A good thing is not known till it is lost.
• 健康はこれを失って始めてそのありがた味を知る
  We do not know the blessing of health till we have lost it.
• 彼死して本校は良教師を失えり
  The school has lost a good teacher in him.
• 機会を失う
  to lose a chance―miss an opportunity
• 彼はノロマでいつも機会を失う
  He always loses his chance through slowness―（他動詞構文にすれば）―His slowness always loses him his chance.
• 彼は職務怠慢のために地位を失った
  He lost his place through neglect of duty―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Neglect of duty lost him his place―cost him his place.
• この発明をするのに発明者が生命を失った
  The inventor lost his life in making this invention―（他動詞構文にすれば）―The invention cost the inventor his life.
• 御一新に大名が政権を失った
  The daimyo's lost their political power at the Restoration―（他動詞構文にすれば）―The Restoration deprived the daimyo's of their political power.
• 糊口の道を失う
  to be deprived of one's daily bread
• 工場が瓦解すると職工が糊口の道を失う
  The collapse of a factory will deprive the operatives of their daily bread.
• 理性を失う（発狂する）
  to be bereft of reason―lose one's wits
• この法を犯す者は生命財産を失う
  One who violates this law forfeits his life and property.

2

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用例

• 職を失う
  to be thrown out of employment

• 彼は職を失って困っている
  He is out of employment―out of work.
• だまされて好い地位を失った
  I have been fooled out of a good position.
• 度を失う
  to be disconcerted
• （愕然として）色を失った
  He turned pale―changed colour―in alarm.
• 気を失う
  to faint―swoon
• 面目を失う
  to be put out of countenance
• 得やすきものは失いやすし
  “Light come, light go.”【イディオム・格言的】

3

（＝殺す）to kill

• 人を失う
  to kill a man―make away with a man

4

用例

• 何々たるを失わぬ
  to be still something

• 彼は欠点が有るにもかかわらず偉人たるを失わぬ
  With all his faults, he is still a great man.
• 他に原因は有るものとしても武士道は日本が今日の隆盛を成せる一大要素たるを失わぬ
  Though there may be other causes, Bushido is still one of the great factors of Japan's greatness.