英和和英

読み方 えんりょ

名詞

1

Reserve; distance; ceremony; deference; delicacy:（=する） to be reserved; to keep one's distance; to keep at a respectful distance; to stand on ceremony:（誰に遠慮する）to defer to （a superior）;（遠慮して何々せぬ）to refrain from （doing something）; to hesitate （to do something）; to decline （to do something）

用例

• 彼は遠慮している
  He is reserved
  He keeps his distance
  He keeps at a respectful distance.

• 自分の腹を痛めた子でないから遠慮している
  She keeps her distance towards him, for he is not a child of her own bearing.
• 遠慮がちな振舞
  distant behaviour
• 彼らは遠慮して食わない
  They refrain from eating.
• 遠慮して食わずにいるのだ
  They do not eat for ceremony's sake.
• 僕の家へ来たら遠慮することは無い
  You need not stand on ceremony with me
  You may make yourself at home.
• あまり遠慮するのはかえって失礼だ
  Too much ceremony is as bad as want of ceremony.
• 遠慮して言わずにいた
  I refrained from speaking out of delicacy―out of regard for your feelings.
• 今まで遠慮して言わずにいました
  I have refrained from speaking.
• 言おう言おうと思いながらつい遠慮して控えていました
  I often thought of saying so, but I have refrained from doing so.
• 大屋が死んだので店子は三味線のお稽古を遠慮している
  As the landlord is dead, the tenants refrain from samisen practice.
• 彼は長者に遠慮している、長者の手前遠慮している
  He defers to his superiors.
• 先生に遠慮して黙っておった
  I kept silent out of deference to my teacher.
• 喫煙は御遠慮被成下度候｛きつえんはごえんりょくだされたくそうろう｝
  The passengers are requested to refrain from smoking.
• 僕にはもったいない地位だから相談に応ずるのを遠慮した
  As the position was too good for me, I declined the offer.

2

用例

• 遠慮無く
  without reserve―without ceremony―freely

• 言いたいことがあるなら遠慮無く言い給え
  You may speak without reserve.
• 欲しい物があったら遠慮無くそうおっしゃい
  If you want anything, say so without reserve―don't hesitate to say so.
• さあ何なりとも遠慮無く召上れ
  Please help yourselves without ceremony.
• この金は遠慮無くお使いなさい
  You may spend the money freely
  You are welcome to the money.
• 遠慮無く頂戴します
  I will take it freely―take it as freely as it is given.
• 品物がお気に入らなかったら遠慮無くお返しなさい
  If you do not like the article, you may freely send it back
  You are free to send it back.
• あの人は誰にでも遠慮が無い
  He is free and easy with everybody―hail-fellow-well-met with everybody.
• 人の物を遠慮無く使う
  He is free with others' possessions.
• 君は遠慮が無いね
  I see you make yourself at home.
• ここは山中の一軒家だから世間に何の遠慮も要らない
  As this is a solitary cottage among the mountains, you are free to do anything you like without fear of the world.
• 遠慮無く言えば（遠慮無い話が）君の方が無理だと思う
  To be frank with you, I think you are in the wrong.
• 彼は誰のことでも遠慮会釈も無く批評する
  He criticizes everybody mercilessly
  He spares nobody.
• 遠慮会釈の無い批評
  merciless criticism―unsparing criticism

3

（=する）（＝遠ざかる）to stay away:（引き下がる）to retire; to withdraw

用例

• 皆遠慮せい
  You may all retire.

• 宅には病人がありますから暫くご遠慮を願います
  As we have an invalid, you will please stay away from the house for a time.
• 日本では不幸がある時人の家へ行くことを遠慮する
  A Japanese in affliction refrains from forcing his cheerless company upon others.