英和和英

読み方 きらい

名詞

1

（＝嫌悪）dislike; aversion; antipathy; abhorrence; distaste; disinclination; hatred; prejudice:（動詞に訳せば）to dislike; to hate; to abhor; to detest; to loathe; to be averse to （anything）; to have a dislike to （anything）; to have an aversion to （anything）; to have an antipathy to （anything）; to have an abhorrence to （anything）; to have a distaste for （anything）; to have a disinclination for （anything）; to have a hatred for （anything）; to have a prejudice against （anything）:（=な） not to one's liking; not to one's taste

用例

• 僕は偽君子が嫌いだ
  I dislike hypocrites
  I have a dislike to hypocrites
  I hate hypocrites
  I have a hatred for hypocrites.

• 僕はこの文章が嫌いだ
  I do not like this style―This style is not to my liking―not to my taste.
• 僕は物事を半途にすることが嫌いだ
  I hate to do things by halves.
• 数学が嫌いな人がある
  Some people have a distaste for mathematics.
• この子は学問が嫌いだ
  The boy has a disinclination for study.
• 学問が嫌いで困る
  He can not get over his dislike to study.
• あの人は女が嫌いだ
  He hates women―He has a hatred for women―He is a woman-hater―a misogynist.
• あの女は男が嫌いだ
  She is a man-hater.
• 彼は仕事が大嫌いだ
  He is averse to work
  He has an aversion to work
  Work is his aversion.
• 彼は人に礼を言われるのが殊に嫌いだ
  Being thanked is my pet aversion.
• 僕はあの人が大嫌いだ
  I have an antipathy to that man
  I can not bear him.
• 僕は手術が大嫌いだ
  I have an abhorrence to surgical operations
  Surgical operations are abhorrence to my feelings
  I have a horror of the knife.
• 彼は西洋嫌いだ
  He has a prejudice against things Western
  He is prejudiced against foreign things.
• 人には皆好き嫌いがある
  Everybody has his likes and dislikes.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 彼は社会主義が大嫌いだ
  He is an enemy to socialism.

• （彼だって人間だもの）酒と女は嫌いじゃない
  He is no enemy to wine and woman.
• 彼に言われることが大嫌いだ
  What he says, is gall and wormwood to me.
• あの西洋人は日本嫌いだ
  He is anti-Japanese （in his sentiments）.

2

（＝欠点）a fault

用例

• この本は緻密に過ぎるのきらいがある
  This book has the fault of excessive minuteness.

• フランス人はていねい過ぎるのきらいがある
  The French have the fault of excessive politeness.
• お役所の事務は繁文褥礼のきらいがある
  Office-business is open to the charge of red-tapism.