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名詞、形容詞相当語句

Four times; quadruple:（=する） to quadruple; to quadruplicate

用例

• 数が四倍になった
  The number has quadrupled.

• この庭はあの庭の四倍ある
  This garden four times as large as that―four times the size of that.

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名詞

1

（＝演劇）a drama; a play; the theatre:（=の） dramatic; theatrical

用例

• 君は芝居に行くか
  Do you go to the play?―go to the theatre?

• 僕はあまり芝居へ行かない
  I am not much of a play-goer.
• 君は芝居好きだね
  You are a regular play-goer.
• 今度の芝居を見たか
  Have you seen the new play?
• 君は芝居を見て泣くか
  Do you cry over a play?
• 芝居を見て泣くのは男らしくないか
  Is it unmanly to cry over a play?
• 芝居見物
  play-going
• 芝居を打つ
  to give a play―run a play
• この芝居は長く打ち続いた
  The play has had a long run.
• この芝居は三十日間打ち続けた
  The play run for 30 days
  The play had a run of 30 days.
• 今度の芝居は大当たりだ
  The new play has made a great hit.
• 今度の芝居は大入りだ
  The new play is drawing large house.
• 今度の芝居は毎日満員だ
  The new play is drawing a full house every day.
• 今度の芝居は入りが無い
  The new play draws a thin house.
• 芝居の役割をする
  to cast the actors for parts
• 芝居の役割
  cast of characters
• 芝居の蓋開け
  the opening of a new play
• 芝居の幕が明く
  The performance begins.
• 芝居がはねる
  The performance ends.
• 芝居は無筆の学問
  The theatre is a popular education.
• 小説を芝居に仕組む
  to dramatize a novel
• あの人のすることは皆芝居がかりだ
  He does everything in the spirit of the drama.
• 芝居道
  The dramatic art.
• 芝居番付
  the programme of a play―a play-bill
• 芝居の稽古
  a rehearsal
• 芝居の稽古をする
  to rehearse a play
• 彼は芝居通だ
  He is an authority on theatrical matters.
• あの人は芝居気（芝居心）が有る
  He is of a dramatic turn of mind―of a theatrical turn of mind.
• 素人芝居
  theatricals―amateur theatricals―private theatricals

2

（＝巧んだ狂言）a part; a studied part; a got-up affair; a masquerade

用例

• あれは芝居をやっているのだ
  He is only acting a part.

• 巧んだ芝居をする
  to act a studied part
• 彼は芝居をやり過ぎる
  He overacts his part.
• けんかは巧らんだ芝居だ
  The quarrel was a got-up affair―a put-up job.
• もとより仕組んだ芝居だからそう来なくては面白くない
  It was a got-up affair, and things turned out as was expected.
• （ありゃ金持ちでもなんでもない）金持ちの芝居をしているのだ
  He is masquerading as a millionaire.
• 芝居にならずにおわった
  The affair came to nothing
  Nothing came of the affair.
• 一芝居打つ
  to enact a scene―create a sensation
• 一芝居打ってみよう
  I think of enacting a scene.

3

（＝劇場）a theatre; a playhouse

用例

• 芝居の常連
  the regular patrons of a theatre

• 芝居茶屋
  a tea-house attached to a theatre