英和和英

読み方 すくう

自動詞

To build （a nest）

読み方 すくう

他動詞

To scoop; to dip

用例

• 網で魚を掬う
  to scoop fish with a net―catch fish with a net―net fish

• 手で水を掬い上げる
  to dip up water with one's hands
• 手で水を掬って飲む
  to drink water out of one's hands
• 杓子で汁を掬う
  to ladle soup
• 匙で汁を掬う
  to spoon up soup
• 人の足を掬う
  to trip one up

読み方 すくう

他動詞

To save （one's life―one from death or ruin）; to rescue （one from drowning）; to deliver （one from danger）; to redeem （man from sin and damnation）; to release （one from distress or trouble）; to relieve （one of distress or trouble）; to help （one out of difficulties）; to relieve, succour, help （the poor）; to pick up （a shipwrecked crew）

用例

• 人命を救う
  to save a man's life―save one from death

• 人の滅亡を救う
  to save one from ruin
• 霊魂を救う
  to save a soul
• 海へ飛び込んで溺死する人を救った
  I plunged into the sea, and rescued a man from drowning.
• 猛火の中へ飛び込んで女を救った
  I plunged into the fire, and rescued a woman from the flames.
• 河へ飛び込んで子どもを救い上げた
  I plunged into the river, and brought the child safe to land.
• 人の危難を救う
  to deliver man from danger
• 人の困難を救う
  to relieve one of distress―release one from trouble―help one out of difficulties
• 貧民を救う
  to relieve the poor―help the poor―succour the poor―give relief to the poor
• 乞食を救う
  to take a boy out of the gutter
• 醜業婦を救う
  to take a girl off the streets
• 世を救う
  to save the world―redeem the world―（from sin and damnation）
• 国家の急を救う
  to meet an emergency
• 君に救われなけれゃ僕は死ぬのであった
  But for your rescue,
  But for your help,
  I should have been drowned.
• 僕は危ないところを救われた
  I was delivered from an imminent danger―snatched from the jaws of death.
• 誰も救いに来てくれぬ
  Nobody will come to my rescue.
• あの人に命を救われたことがある
  He once saved my life
  I owe him my life.
• 病人を救うべからず
  He is past cure―past help of man―He is a gone case―It is all over with―all up with―the invalid.
• 国を憂うるはやすく国を救うは難し
  It is easy to prophesy evil, but hard to avert it.