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名詞

A definite answer:（=する） to give （one） a definite answer

用例

• 決答を促す
  to demand s definite answer

• 決答を迫る
  to press for a definite answer

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名詞

A duel; an affair of honour:（=する） to fight a duel

用例

• 決闘を申込む
  to challenge one to a duel―call out a man―demand satisfaction―throw down the gauntlet

• 決闘の申込みに応ずる
  to give satisfaction―take up the gauntlet
• 決闘ならいつでも応ずる
  I am ready to give satisfaction.
• 決闘の本人
  the principal
• 決闘の介添人
  a second―（をする）―to act as second at a duel
• 決闘に関する習慣
  a code of honour
• 決闘は厳禁されている
  Duelling is strictly prohibited.
• 決闘状
  a challenge
• 決闘家
  a duellist

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名詞

Formation of a party:（=する） to form a party

• 結党式
  the inauguration of a party

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名詞

Blood; descent; extraction; lineage; pedigree; stock; strain

用例

• 彼は血統が好い
  He comes of a good stock
  He is of a good strain.

• 血統が正しい
  He is of pure blood.
• 血統の正しい馬
  a thoroughbred
• 誰の血統を引いている
  to be descended from―trace one's descent to―some ancestor
• 土人の中には日本人の血統を引いている者がある
  Some of the natives are descended from Japanese―of Japanese descent―of Japanese blood.
• この島の土人は多少 Spain 人の血統を引いている
  The islanders have some Spanish blood in them.
• 我々は同じ血統を引いている（血を分けた仲）
  We are consanguineous―related by blood―of the same blood―He is my own flesh and blood.
• （遺伝病などが）血統を引く
  to run in the blood―run in the family
• 彼は発狂の血統を引いている
  Madness runs in his family
  He has a strain of madness in him
  He has a taint of madness in him.
• 彼は頭の早く禿げる血統だ
  Premature baldness runs in his family.
• 彼は長命の血統だ
  Longevity runs in his family
  He belongs to a long-lived family.
• 彼は親父の血統を引いてばくちが好きだ
  He has inherited his father's passion for gambling.