英和和英

読み方 かざる

他動詞

1

（＝装飾する）to ornament （a room with pictures）; to decorate （a house with flags）; to adorn （one's mind with virtues）; to embellish （one's style with classical expressions）; garnish （one's speech with quotations）; to grace （history with great names）; to deck （a bank with flowers）

用例

• 西洋間は油絵で飾ってある
  The foreign room is ornamented with oil-painting.

• 式場は立派に飾ってある
  The hall is finely decorated.
• 正に昭和の聖代を飾るべき一大著述である
  It is a great work well calculated to grace the Showa Era.
• 彼は歴史を飾る名を残した
  He left a name to grace history.
• 外見を飾る
  to strive after effect―show off―parade
• 奇羅を飾る
  to dress finely
• 彼女は金にあかさず綺羅を飾る
  She gets herself up regardless of expense.
• 売物に花を飾る
  “No man cries stinking fish.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 故郷に錦を飾る
  to return home loaded with honours

2

（＝陳列する）to exhibit （articles）; to put （articles） on show

用例

• 美術館には美術品が飾ってある
  Works of art are kept for exhibition in the art-gallery.

• 書斎に本が飾ってある
  The books are put on show―kept for show―in his study.
• 彼は本を買っても飾って置くのだ
  He keeps his books for show
  He buys his books for ornaments.

3

（＝虚飾する）to affect; to be affected

用例

• 彼は様子を飾る
  He has affected manners.

• 飾ったものの言いようをする
  He speaks affectedly
  He has an affected way of speaking.
• 言葉を飾る
  to use affected language―use high-flown language
• 辺幅を飾る
  to keep up appearances
• 上辺を飾る
  to dissemble―dissimulate
• 彼は少しも飾らない人だ
  He is an unaffected person―a simple man―a plain man.

4

（＝ごまかす）to gloss over （a fault）

用例

• 己が欠点をおおい飾る
  to gloss over one's faults

• 飾らずに本当のことを言う
  to tell the plain truth―tell the naked truth―tell the unvarnished truth
• 飾らずに言えば詐欺だ
  To be plain with you―In plain English―it is fraud.