英和和英

読み方 おちつく

自動詞

1

（＝心が落着く）to become self-possessed; to become calm; to calm oneself; to become composed; to compose oneself; to recover one's composure; to become collected; to collect oneself; to gather one's scattered wits; to become cool; to cool down; to settle down

用例

• 彼は落ち着いている
  He is calm―cool―cool and steady―cool and collected―composed―self-possessed―He has a cool head―a level head.

• 落ち着いた人だ
  He is a self-possessed man.
• 落ち着いた奴だ
  He is a cool hand.
• 落ち着かない人だ
  He is a restless man―a fidgety man.
• 少し落ち着いてあたりを見まわした
  Composing myself a little, I looked around me.
• 落ち着いて考えてみた
  Collecting myself,
  Gathering my scattered wits,
  I tried to think.
• 彼は落ち着いた性質だ
  He is of a sedate disposition―of a staid disposition.
• 落ち着かない性質だ
  He is of a flighty disposition―of a volatile disposition―of a feverish disposition.
• 落ち着いたふうをしている
  He has a self-possessed air―a composed air.
• 落ち着かないふうをしている
  He has a restless air―an uneasy, air―a hurried manner―a flurried manner.
• 彼は落ち着いて演説をする
  He speaks calmly―with calmness―with a calm air―with a composed air―with a self-possessed air.
• 落ち着いて事をする
  to do anything with calmness―with a quiet purpose
• 落ち着いてものを言え
  Speak more calmly!
• どうも気が落ち着かない
  Somehow I feel restless
  I feel fidgety
  I am in a fidget
  I have the fidgets.
• 落ち着いて勉強することができない
  I can not settle down to my studies.

2

（＝住居を定める）to settle down; to settle one's abode; to take up one's abode; to take up one's residence; to take up one's lodgings; to take up one's quarters; to make one's home

用例

• 東京に落ち着いたのは五年前です
  I settled down in Tokyo five years ago
  I have been settled in Tokyo these five years.

• ひとまずこの下宿屋に落ち着くことにしよう
  I shall take up my quarters in this lodging-house for the present.
• 落ち着いたら早速知らしてくれ給え
  Please let me know as soon as you are settled.
• 君は細君でも貰って落ち着く気は無いか
  Have you no mind to get married and settle down?―settle down to a married life?
• 日本に落ち着く西洋人はいくらもある
  Many foreigners make their homes among the Japanese.

3

（＝鎮まる）to subside; to abate; to become calm; to calm down; to become quiet; to quiet down; to become tranquil

用例

• 騒動がやっと落ち着いた
  The disturbance has subsided at last.

• 痛みが少し落ち着いた
  The pain has abated a little.
• 選挙がすんで市中はやっと落ち着いたところだ
  The election is over, and the town has just calmed down―quieted down―recovered its quiet―been restored to its wonted tranquillity.

4

（＝坐りが好い）to be stable; to be steady

用例

• 馬上に尻が落ち着く
  to acquire a steady seat on horseback

• 僕はどうも馬上に腰が落ち着かない
  I can not sit a horse well.
• あの男は尻が落ち着かない
  He can not stay long in one place.

5

（＝調和する）to harmonize with （anything）; to be in keeping with （anything）

用例

• 油絵は日本間に落ち着かない
  An oil-painting does not harmonize with―fit into―a Japanese room.

• 異分子は落ち着かないものだ
  A foreign element will not agree with its surroundings.