英和和英

読み方 じゅみょう

名詞

One's life; one's days; the length of one's days; one's race of life; one's natural term of existence

用例

• 寿命が長い、寿命が短かい
  to be long-lived―short-lived

• 寿命を伸ばす
  to prolong one's life―lengthen one's days―add to one's natural term of existence
• 寿命が伸びる
  One takes a new lease of life.
• 寿命を縮める
  to shorten one's life―shorten one's days―shorten one's natural term of existence―drive a nail in one's coffin
• 寿命が縮まる
  One life is shortened
  One's days are shortened.
• 寿命の縮まるような思いをした
  I had an experience likely to shorten my natural term of existence.
• あの心配で十年は寿命を縮めている
  That anxiety has shortened my natural term of existence by ten years.
• そんな無理をすると寿命を縮めるぞ
  You are driving a nail in your coffin―adding a nail to your coffin―burning the candle at both ends.
• 苦労は寿命を縮める【イディオム・格言的】
  “Care preys on life”
  “Care is a foe to life”
  “Care killed the cat”
• お前は俺にこんな苦労をさせて親の寿命を縮める奴だ
  Your will bring your father's gray hairs to the grave.
• それは親の寿命を縮めた罰だ
  That comes of bringing your father's gray hairs to the grave.
• 彼の寿命が来て死んだのだ、寿命だからしかたがない
  His race was run
  His career was run.
• 彼の寿命は知れている
  His days are numbered.
• 大砲の寿命
  the life of a gun