英和和英

読み方 きわめる

他動詞

1

（＝極点に達せしむ）to carry （anything） to extremity

用例

• 豪奢を極める
  to roll in luxury―be lapped in luxury―repose in the lap of luxury―dine off plate and repose on a bed of down―live on the fat of the land―live in clover

• 栄耀栄華を極める
  to live in splendour
• Solomon の栄耀栄華を極めし時だもその装いこの百合に及ばざりき
  “Solomon in all his glory was not arranged like one of these （lilies）.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 暴風雨猛威を極めて襲来す
  The storm burst on us in all its fury.
• 花が美を極めて咲いている
  The flowers are blooming in all their beauty.
• 暴状を極める
  to commit excesses―break out into excesses
• 暴虐を極める
  to commit outrages
• 乱暴狼籍を極める
  to run riot
• 円転滑脱の妙を極める
  to show consummate tact
• 繁劇を極める
  to be pressed with business―live in a whirl of business
• 貧窮を極める
  to be in the direst want
• 罹災民は惨状を極めている
  The sufferers are in extreme misery―in the direst misery―in a wretched plight.
• 齢人寿を全うし位人臣を極む
  He died full of years and honours.
• 口を極めて賞めている
  They extol him to the skies―They are loud in his praises―warm in his praises.
• 口を極めて罵詈する
  to abuse one in every key―abuse one in no measured terms

2

（＝充分に研究する）to master （a subject）

用例

• 一芸を極める
  to master an art―make oneself master of one's business―（女なら）―make oneself mistress of one's business

• 彼（女）は一芸に極めている
  He is master of his business
  She is mistress of her business.
• 万芸に通じて一芸を極める
  to know something of everything and everything of something
• 万芸に通じて一芸を極めず
  He is Jack of all trades and master of none.
• 奥儀を極める
  to go to the heart of the thing―see into the heart of the thing―penetrate into the inmost heart of the thing
• この道の極意を極める
  to be initiated into the mysteries of the art
• 原理を極める
  to inquire into the fundamental truths
• 英語は入りやすく極め難し
  English is easy to learn, but difficult to master.