英和和英

読み方 うつわ

名詞

1

（＝容器）a vessel; a utensil; a receptacle

• 人は病の器
  “Flesh is heir to many ills.”【イディオム・格言的】

2

（＝器量）talent; ability; capacity; calibre

用例

• 人に将たる器あり（器にあらず）
  He has a talent for generalship―no talent for generalship.

• 彼は偉人の器が有る
  He has in him the making of a great man.
• 器が大きい、器が小さい
  He is a man of large calibre―a man of small calibre.
• その器にあらず
  He is not the man for it―unfit for the post―unequal to the task.