英和和英

読み方 ことわり

名詞

1

（＝予告）notice; warning

用例

• 前もってお断りが無ければできません
  It can not be done without previous notice.

• 三日前にお断りが無ければできません
  Three day's notice is required.
• 前日お断りがあればできます
  A day's notice will do.
• 一カ月前の断りで雇人に暇を出すのが西洋の習慣だ
  It is the custom in foreign countries to give a servant a month's warning.
• 断り無しに暇を出された
  I was dismissed without warning.
• 断り無しに欠席する
  to absent oneself without notice―play truant

2

（＝拒絶、謝絶）refusal; declination; non-acceptance

用例

• お断りです
  I beg to decline.

• お気の毒だがお断りです
  I am sorry I must refuse your request
  I am sorry I can not oblige you.
• そんな条件ではお断りです
  I must decline your offer―I can not accept your offer―on such terms.
• 貸売いっさいお断り
  No credit allowed
  Trust is dead.
• 夜学はお断りです
  I object to teaching evenings.

3

（＝禁止）Prohibition

• 左の条々堅くお断り
  The following are strictly prohibited:―

4

（＝許可）permission; leave

• 断り無しに出掛けてはいかん
  You must not go out without permission―without leave.

5

（＝言い訳）an excuse

用例

• 伊藤さんからお断りです
  Mr. Ito has sent an excuse
  Mr. Ito excuses himself （from coming）.

• 断りの手紙
  a note of excuse
  a note of regret

読み方 ことわり

名詞

Reason

用例

• お前がそう言うのも理だ
  You have good reason to say so
  You may well say that.

• 君の言う事にも多少理がある
  There is some reason in what you say
  There is something in that.
• 彼が成功するのも理だ（理なる哉）
  It is natural that he should succeed
  It is no wonder that he should succeed
  It is no great wonder that he should succeed
  What wonder that he should succeed!