英和和英

読み方 うれい

名詞

A disease; an evil

読み方 うれい

名詞

1

（＝憂愁）sorrow; grief

用例

• 明治天皇の崩御ありし時は全国が憂いに沈んだ
  At the demise of Meiji Tenno, the whole nation was plunged in grief.

• 彼は眉宇間に憂いの雲を宿している
  His brow is clouded with sorrow.
• 憂いを払う
  to dispel sorrow―dissipate grief
• 酒は憂いの玉箒｛たまはばき｝
  “Wine maketh glad the heart of man.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 人生字を知るは憂いの始め
  Knowledge is the beginning of sorrow
  Sorrow begins with knowledge
  Knowledge is sorrow.
• 憂い顔
  a sorrowful face

2

（＝虞れ｛おそれ｝）fear; danger; liability; possibility

用例

• 何々の憂いがある
  There are fears of failure
  One is liable to error
  One is in danger of death
  One is threatened with death
  One runs a chance of failure.

• 人は誤る憂いがある
  Man is liable to error.
• 木造の家は火災の憂いがある
  A wooden house is liable to fire.
• 石造の家は火災の憂い無し
  A stone house is free from fire―safe from fire―secure from fire.
• 船は難破の憂いあり
  The ship is in danger of being wrecked―threatened with destruction.
• 彼は生命を失う憂いがある
  He is in danger of losing his life―in peril of his life―threatened with loss of life.
• 亡国の憂いあり
  The country is in peril of going to ruin.
• 投機は失敗の憂いがある
  A speculation is liable to failure.
• 君はそんなことをすると失敗の憂いがあるぞ
  You will run a chance of failure.
• 土地が低いから水害の憂いがある
  The lowness of the land makes it liable to floods.
• 土地が高いから水害の憂いが無い
  The height of the land frees it from floods.
• 彼は大臣になる憂いがある
  There are some fears of his becoming a Minister.
• 抵当を取っておけば損をする憂いが無い
  The security will secure me from loss.
• この商売は損をする憂いが無い
  This business is secure from loss―free from risks.
• 日本は絶対的に外敵襲来の憂い無し
  Japan is absolutely secure from foreign invasion.
• 青天井は落ちる憂い無し（と乞食言う）
  There is no fear of―no danger of―the blue sky falling.
• 失敗の憂い無きように万全の策をとる
  We shall resort to sure means to preclude the possibility of failure―to obviate the possibility of failure.

3

（＝心配）anxiety; solicitude; care

用例

• 僕は憂いに悩んでいる
  I am oppressed with doubts and anxieties.

• 内顧の憂い
  family cares―household cares―domestic cares
• 君は内顧の憂いが無いから好い
  You are free from family cares.
• 良妻は夫をして内顧の憂い無からしむ
  A good wife will free her husband from family cares.
• 後顧の憂い
  solicitude about one's home―family cares
• 僕は後顧の憂いがある
  I am solicitous about my home
  I have family cares.
• 後顧の憂いがあっては充分に働けぬ
  Solicitude about one's home will hinder one's activity.
• 戦線に立つ将卒をして後顧の憂い無からしめよ
  Let the officers and men at the front be freed from solicitude about their homes!
• 後顧の憂い無く思いきって遊んでみたい
  I should like to have my fling free from care.
• 後顧の憂いを断つ
  to leave one no cause for solicitude―free one from care
• 彼は妻を離別して後顧の憂いを断った
  He divorced his wife to free himself from family cares.

4

（＝患憂）a calamity; a disaster; a danger; a curse

用例

• 民情軽薄は当世の憂いである
  The levity of the people is the curse of the age.

• 遠き慮り｛おもんぱかり｝ある者は近き憂い無し
  Prudence averts danger
  “A danger foreseen is avoided.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 遠き慮り無き者は近き憂いあり
  Imprudence courts danger.