英和和英

読み方 しんだい

名詞

A bed; a bedstead:（子どものは）a crib:（汽車や汽船のは）a berth

用例

• 寝台の明きが無いか
  Are there any vacant beds?

• 寝台が皆ふさがっている
  The beds are all occupied.
• （汽車の）寝台を予約する
  to have a berth reserved for one
• 寝台が予約してある
  I have a berth reserved for me.
• 寝台車
  a sleeping carriage―（は英、米は）―a sleeping car
• この列車に寝台車が付いていますか
  Is there a sleeping carriage attached to this train?
• 寝台切符
  a sleeping-berth ticket

読み方 しんだい

名詞

1

A fortune; an estate; one's property; one's finances; one's worldly wealth; wealth

用例

• こんな著述は身代だ
  Such a work is a fortune―quite a fortune.

• 本があの人の身代だ
  Books constitute his worldly wealth.
• 彼は身代を半分出してその馬を買った
  He gave half his worldly wealth for the horse.
• 彼は身代を挙げてその事業に投じた
  He invested his all in the enterprise 【イディオム・格言的には：】“put all his eggs in one basket.”
• 彼はいくらの身代か
  What is he worth?
• 百万の身代だ
  He is worth a million.
• 三井岩崎と肩を並べる身代だ
  He vies with the Mitsuis and Iwasakis in wealth.

2

〈動詞付〉

用例

• 身代をこしらえる
  to make a fortune―make one's fortune―build up a fortune―make a pile―make one's pile―amass wealth

• 彼はどうして身代をこしらえたか
  How did he make his fortune?
• 怪しい儲けでこしらえた身代だ
  He has built up his fortune by questionable gains.
• 相当な身代をこしらえる
  to acquire a competence
• 彼は身代をこしらえたから働かないでも食って行ける
  His wealth has raised him above the necessity of labour.
• 死んで身代を残す
  to bequeath a fortune to one―leave one a fortune
• 彼は息子に身代を残して死んだ
  He left his son a fortune.
• 彼の父は身代を残して死んだ
  His father left him a fortune.
• 五十万の身代を残して死んだ
  He died worth half a million.
• 彼はだいぶ身代を残して死んだらしい
  He seems to have left a large fortune―cut up well.
• 身代を譲る
  to make over one's property to another
• 彼は息子に身代を譲って隠居した
  He has made over his property to his son, and retired from life.
• 親譲りの身代
  an inheritance
  a heritage
  a patrimony
• 子どもに身代を分ける
  to divide one's property among one's children―settle property on one's children
• 近頃の物入りで身代に大穴を明けた
  My late outlays have left a gap in my finances.
• 身代をつぶす
  to lose one's fortune―squander one's fortune―dissipate one's fortune
• 彼はばくちで身代をつぶした
  He has gambled away his fortune―played away his fortune.
• 身代を飲みつぶした
  He has drunk away his fortune―drunk himself out of his fortune.
• 相場に手を出して身代をつぶした
  He lost his fortune by dabbling in speculation.
• 娘三人持つと身代をつぶす
  Three daughters will ruin a man.
• 身代がつぶれた
  His fortune has gone to wreck.
• 身代を使い果たす
  to go through one's fortune
• 身代の尾が見えて来た
  He has come to the end of his fortune.
• 身代を立て直す、身代を盛り返す、身代を挽回する
  to retrieve one's fortunes
• 身代を伸ばす
  to increase one's wealth
• 身代が太る
  to grow rich