英和和英

読み方 しかたがない

熟語

1

（＝詮方無し）one can not help it; it can not be helped; there is no help for it; there is no alternative; there is no remedy; it is not to be avoided; it is unavoidable; it is inevitable

用例

• 今となってはしかたがない
  There is no help for it now
  We can not recall the past.

• 待つよりほかにしかたがない
  There is nothing for it but to wait
  There is no alternative but to wait
  We have no choice but to wait.
• 逃げるよりほかにしかたがない
  There is nothing for it but to run
  We must run for it.
• 一つ二つの間違いはしかたがない
  A mistake or two can not be helped
  One or two mistakes are not to be avoided.
• 若い時の失錯はしかたがない
  A few slips in youth are not to be helped―not to be avoided―unavoidable.
• 君が勝手でしたことはしかたがないじゃないか
  I can not help what you have done
  How can I help what you have done?
• 鼻が高かろうと低かろうとうまれつきだからしかたがない
  I can not help the shape of my nose.
• 大きな声は地声だからしかたがありません
  I can not help my natural voice.
• 人に何と思われたってしかたがない
  We can not help what others think of us.
• こちらが悪いのだから何と言われてもしかたがない
  We are in the wrong, We can not help whatever they may say
  We must put up with anything they may say.
• しかたがないと諦める
  to abide by the inevitable―submit to necessity―bow to fate―resign oneself to fate―accept the situation―make the best of a bad bargain
• 犯人はしかたがないと諦めて神妙に縛に就いた
  The culprit frankly accepted the situation, and suffered himself to be bound.

2

（＝已むを得ぬ）to be obliged to, be compelled to, be forced to, to constrained to （do something）; to be under the necessity of （doing something）

用例

• 車が無いのでしかたがないから歩いて来た
  As there was no ricksha to be had, I was obliged to walk it.

• 金を返さないのでしかたがないから訴えた
  As he would not pay the money, I was obliged to―compelled to―forced to―go to law.
• 金が無いのでしかたがないから断った
  As I had no money, I was obliged to refuse―under the necessity of refusing―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Want of money obliged me to refuse―laid me under the necessity of refusing.
• 約束したからしかたがない
  My promise obliges me to do so
  My promise lays me under the necessity of doing so
  “A bargain is a bargain.”【イディオム・格言的】

3

（＝駄目だ）it is no use, it is no good （trying）; there is no use in, there is no good in （trying）

用例

• 泣いたってしかたがない
  It is no use crying
  There is no use in crying
  Crying will not help matters.

• 怒ったてしかたがない
  It is no good getting angry
  There is no good in getting angry
  Anger will not mend matters.
• いまさら何を言ったってしかたがない
  It is no use talking now
  There is no use in talking now
  Talking will not help matters now.
• いまさら悔いたってしかたがない
  It is no good regretting
  There is no good in regretting
  Regrets will not mend matters
  Do not indulge in vain regrets
  Do not “cry over spilt milk.”
• こんな地位にかじりついていたってしかたがない
  It is no use sticking to such a position.

4

（＝たまらない）can not contain oneself

用例

• 腹が立ってしかたがない
  I can not contain my anger.

• そうしてみたくてしかたがない
  I feel an irresistible impulse to do so.
• 水が飲みたくてしかたがない
  I am dying for a drink of water.
• これがどうしても本当のようでしかたがない
  I feel that it is true.
• 僕にもできそうでしかたがない
  I feel within me―feel it in my bones―that I can do it.
• 手が震えてしかたがない
  My hands will shake.

5

〈その他〉

用例

• してしまったことはしかたがない
  I can not help what I have done
  I can not undo what I have done
  What I have done, I have done.

• できたことはしかたがない
  What is done, can not be helped
  What is done, can not be undone
  What is done, is done.
• やってしまったものはしかたがない
  What I have given, I have given.
• 書いてしまったものはしかたがない
  What I have written, I have written
  What is written, is written.
• 意見の差はしかたがない
  Differences of opinion can not be helped
  There will be differences of opinion.
• けがはしかたがない
  “Accidents will happen.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 子どものいたずらはしかがない
  “Boys will be boys.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 若いからしかたがない
  Young men will be young men
  We must take his youth into account
  We must make allowances for his youth.
• 西洋人だからしかたがない
  We must make allowances （for his ignorance）, seeing that he is a foreigner.
• しかたがないから金を出した
  I was obliged to give the money
  I gave the money from necessity
  Making a virtue of necessity, I gave the money.
• 武士はしかたがないから清貧を誇るのだ
  Making a virtue of necessity, the samurai gloried in honourable poverty.
• しかたがないから英語の先生を始めた
  Having no other resource, I took to teaching English.
• 好い人が無いからしかたがないからあの男を使うのだ
  I employ him for want of a better.
• しかたがないからこんな家に住んでいるのだ
  I live in such a house for want of a better.
• しかたがないからこの地位で我慢しよう
  I shall put up with this position for want of a better.
• しかたがなければこの家で間に合う
  This house will do in default of a better.
• しかたがなけりゃこの家でも間に合う
  This house will do at a pinch.
• いよいよしかたが無けりゃ死ぬだけのことさ
  When the worst comes to the worst, I can but die.
• 持って生まれた運だから善かれ悪しかれしかたがない
  We must take our lot for better or for worse.
• 世の中はこんなものだから善かれ悪しかれしかたがない
  We must take life for better or for worse.
• （ピストルを向けられて）その論法で来るならしかたがない
  If you use that logic, I must submit.
• （彼も死んだが）命数だからしかたがない
  His career was run
  His race was run.
• 無い物はしかたがない
  One can make nothing out of nothing.
• （またやったか）子どもだからしかたがない
  A child knows no better.
• （ご不在か）しかたがない、また来よう
  No matter! I will call again.
• 彼女は彼に急所を握られているからどうされてもしかたがない
  He has a grip upon her, so she is at his mercy.
• 今度だけはしかたがないからこれから気をつけて下さい
  I will overlook your fault for this time, but you will be more careful in future.
• 過ぎ去ったことはしかたがない
  “Let bygones be bygones.”【イディオム・格言的】