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自動詞

（＝経過する）to pass; to elapse; to expire; to go on; to go by

用例

• 時が過ぎる
  Time passes
  Time elapses
  Time expires
  Time goes on
  Time goes by.

• 二十年は夢のように過ぎた
  Twenty years have passed like a dream.
• 春は過ぎた
  Spring is past
  Spring is over.
• 花は過ぎた
  The blossoms are over.
• 月日は速かに過ぎる
  Time flies.
• 時間が知らぬ間に過ぎた
  Time slipped away
  I took no note of time.
• 時が過ぎるに従って悲しみが薄らいだ
  As time went by, my grief subsided―My grief subsided with the lapse of time―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Time blunted the edge of my sorrow.
• 彼は盛りが過ぎた
  He is past his prime
  He has seen his best days.
• 盛り過ぎたる姥桜｛うばざくら｝
  She is past her prime
  She is a superannuated beauty.
• この手形は支払期限が過ぎている
  The note is overdue.
• 三年過ぎてまた逢った
  We met again three years after―three years later―after the lapse of three years―at the end of three years―at the expiration of three years.
• 過ぎたことはしかたがない
  What is done, can not be helped
  What is done, is done
  “Let bygones be bygones.”【イディオム・格言的】

他動詞

1

（＝通過する）to pass （a door） ; to go past （a house） ; to pass through （a wood, etc.）

用例

• 門前を過ぎる
  to pass one's door

• 汽車はいつしか福島を過ぎて仙台に着いた
  We passed Fukushima before we knew, and arrived at Sendai.
• この林を過ぎると河がある
  When you pass through this forest, you come to a river.

2

（＝超過する）to exceed

• 名は実に過ぎる
  The name exceeds the reality.

自他動

（＝過度にする）to go too far; to carry （the matter） too far; to go to excess; to carry （the matter） to excess; to be excessive; to overdo anything; to go beyond bounds:（副詞に訳せば）excessively; to excess; too much; too far

用例

• 過ぎたるは及ばざるが如し
  “Too much is as bad as too little.”【イディオム・格言的】

• 物大に過ぐれば亡ぶ
  Excessive size is self-destructive.
• 彼には過ぎた細君だ
  She is too good for him
  He is unworthy of her.
• 彼は身分に過ぎたぜいたくをする
  He lives above his means.
• これは身に過ぎた光栄です
  This is undeserved honour
  The honour is more than I deserve
  The honour is above my deserts.

接尾動詞

（＝過度にする）to go too far; to carry （the matter） too far; to go to excess; to carry （the matter） to excess; to be excessive; to overdo anything; to go beyond bounds:（副詞に訳せば）excessively; to excess; too much; too far

用例

• 食い過ぎる
  to eat to excess―eat too much―overeat oneself

• 彼は食い過ぎては身体をこわす
  He makes himself ill by overeating himself.
• 飲み過ぎる
  to drink to excess―drink too much―overdrink oneself
• ちと飲み過ぎた
  I have taken a drop too much.
• 彼の病気は飲み過ぎるからだ
  His illness comes of excessive drinking.
• 彼は飲み過ぎては病気する
  He will drink himself ill.
• 彼の親父は飲み過ぎて死んだ
  His father drank himself to death.
• 君は働き過ぎる、勉強し過ぎる
  You work too hard―overwork yourself.
• 勉強し過ぎると病気になるぞ
  You will work yourself ill.
• 勉強し過ぎると死ぬぞ
  You will work yourself to death.
• 彼は勉強し過ぎて肺病になった
  He has worked himself into consumption.
• 君は人の言うことを信じ過ぎる
  You are too ready to believe
  You are too credulous.
• 君は子どもを大事にし過ぎる
  You make too much of your children.
• 彼は正直過ぎる
  He is too honest
  He carries his honesty to excess.
• 日本人はていねい過ぎると西洋人言う
  Foreigners say that the Japanese are too polite―the Japanese carry their politeness too far.
• 多過ぎる
  There are too many―more than are needed.
• 一つ多過ぎる
  There is one too many
  There are too many by one.
• 少なすぎる
  There are too few―fewer than are necessary.
• 彼は気前が好過ぎる
  He is too generous―generous to a fault―He carries his generosity too far.
• まじめ過ぎる
  He is too grave―grave to sadness.
• 心が優し過ぎる
  He is too tender―tender to weakness.
• 惚れ過ぎる
  to love too well―love to distraction
• この子は利口過ぎる
  The child is too knowing
  The child knows too much.
• お前はわがまま過ぎる
  You are too self-indulgent.
• 君そりゃわがまま過ぎるぜ
  That is too selfish of you.
• 彼は厳し過ぎる
  He is too severe
  He errs on the side of severity.
• 君は寛大過ぎる
  You are too lenient
  You err on the side of leniency.
• 話が善過ぎる
  The news is too good to be true.
• 夫婦にしては年が違い過ぎる
  Their ages differ too much―Their ages are too unequal―for them to be man and wife.
• 彼は年が行き過ぎている
  He is too old
  His age is against him.
• 年が若過ぎる
  He is too young
  His youth is against him.
• あの女は作りが若過ぎる
  She gets herself up too young.
• 彼は金が有り過ぎる
  He has too much money
  He has money in excess.
• 二人は仲が好過ぎる
  They are too intimate―too familiar.
• 仲が好過ぎてけんかする
  Overfamiliarity is the cause of their quarrels.
• 何事もいき過ぎぬようにせよ
  You must not go beyond bounds―You must keep within bounds―in everything.
• 気が利き過ぎて間が抜けている
  She is too knowing to be clever.

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