英和和英

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名詞

1

（＝何省の何局）a bureau; an office; a board

用例

• 県治局
  the Prefectural Bureau

• 郵便局
  a post office
• 商務局
  the Board of Trade
• 局長
  the chief of a bureau―the director of a bureau
• 局員
  the staff of a bureau
• 私も局員です
  I am on the staff of the bureau.

2

（＝電話交換局）the telephone exchange

3

（＝囲碁の勝負）a game at go

4

（＝事局、時局、難局）an affair; the situation

用例

• 局に当たる
  （事局なら）to take charge of an affair―concern oneself with an affair―（時局なら）―deal with the situation―（難局なら）―cope with the situation―grapple with the situation―tackle the situation

• 僕は自ら局に当たることを欲せぬ
  I do not wish to concern myself with the affair.
• この局に当たる者は無いか
  Is there no one who can deal with the situation?―cope with the situation?―grapple with the situation?―tackle the situation?
• 彼は財政の局に当たっている
  He has charge of the finances
  He is in charge of the finances.
• 局に当たる者
  those in charge―those in power―the authorities
• 局に当たる者は迷う【イディオム・格言的】
  “Men are blind in their own cause”
  “No man is wise in his own affairs.”

5

（＝結局）an end; a close; a termination; a conclusion; a settlement

用例

• 局を結ぶ
  to end―come to an end―come to a close―come to a termination―come to a conclusion―come to a settlement

• 事件は首尾好く局を結んだ
  The affair has been brought to a happy termination.
• 速かに局を結ばんことを祈る
  I wish the matter may be brought to a speedy conclusion.
• 事は平和に局を結んだ
  The affair has come to a peaceful termination―been brought to an amicable settlement.

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名詞

1

（＝曲直の曲）wrong

• いずれが直いずれが曲なるかを知らず
  I do not know which is in the right and which is in the wrong
  I do not know the rights and wrongs of the case.

2

（＝楽曲）a musical composition; a piece of music; a tune; an air

• ピアノの一曲を奏す
  to play a tune on the piano

3

（＝興味）interest; enjoyment; pleasure

用例

• 今時の芝居は曲が無い
  Modern plays are devoid of interest.

• 逢ってすぐ別れるとは曲が無い
  To meet only to part again is no pleasure.
• 一時に皆貰ってしまっては曲が無い
  To receive all at a time would spoil the pleasure of expectation.

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接続詞

Fancy-; trick-

用例

• 曲弾き
  fancy-playing （on the samisen）

• 曲乗り
  trick-riding―fancy-riding―（自転車なら）―trick-cycling―（飛行機なら）―a fancy flight
• 曲独楽
  trick-spinning

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名詞

1

（＝南北極の極）a pole

用例

• 両極
  the poles

• 北極、南極
  the North pole―the South Pole
• 磁極
  the magnetic poles
• 陽極
  the positive pole―the anode
• 陰極
  the negative pole―the cathode

2

（＝極点）the extreme; the top; the height; the zenith; the meridian; a climax:（最低点、どん底は）the bottom; the nadir; the worst

用例

• そんなことをするのは愚の極だ
  It is the height of folly―folly itself―to do such a thing.

• 見せるのは残酷の極だ
  To show it to him is the height of cruelty―cruelty itself.
• 行くのは無謀の極だ
  To go would be the height of rashness―rashness itself.
• 学位を取るくらいが彼らの大望の極だ
  It is the top of their ambition to take a degree.
• 俗人に言わせると熱心は野暮の極だ
  Worldly men will say that enthusiasm in the height of vulgarity.
• 英国は繁栄の極に達している
  England is at the summit of her prosperity―at the zenith of her prosperity.
• その頃平家は栄華の極に達していた
  Then the Taira family was at the meridian of its splendour.
• 彼は不運の極に達している
  He is at the bottom of Fortune's wheel
  His fortune is at its nadir.
• 窮状その極に達している
  They are reduced to the last extreme of wretchedness.
• 不景気も極に達すると直る
  When things are at their worst, they will mend.
• あの頃は道徳の廃頽はその極に達した
  In those days, the depravity of morals was at its worst.
• 彼の熱心は極に達した
  His enthusiasm has reached its climax.

3

（＝何々の結果）［注意］訳語一定せず。

用例

• 彼は絶望の極自害した
  Despair drove him to suicide.

• 苦心の極成功した
  He succeeded after much labour
  His labours were crowned with success.
• 放蕩の極身を亡ぼした
  His riotous living ended in his ruin.
• その極彼を殺すに至った
  They went so for as to kill him―went the length of killing him.
• 節倹の極灯火までも倹約するに至った
  He carried his economy so far as to do without a lamp
  He carried his economy to the length of doing without a lamp.