英和和英

読み方 すじょう

名詞

1

（＝家柄） birth; parentage; family; stock; blood

用例

• 彼は素性が好い、素性は歴としたものだ
  He comes of a good family
  He is well-born.

• 素性が悪い
  He comes of a bad stock.
• 素性が賤しい
  He is low-born.
• 彼の細君は素性が賤しい
  His wife is beneath him in birth
  He married her out of the gutter
  He married her from off the streets.
• 彼は不心得にも素性の賤しい女と結婚した
  He had the imprudence to marry beneath him―contract a mésalliance.
• 素性賤しき銀兵衛が女房連れの刃にかかり
  To die by the sword of the low-born Ginbei and his wife!
• 素性を調べる、素性を洗う
  to inquire into one's birth and parentage
• 人の素性は争われない
  Blood will tell.
• 彼の素性が素性だから
  His birth accounts for it.

2

（＝起原） origin

用例

• 素性が賤しい
  He is of low origin―of base origin―of obscure origin―of plebeian origin.

• 素性を調べる、素性を洗う
  to inquire into one's origin
• 素性が不明だ
  He is of unknown origin.

3

（＝経歴） antecedents

用例

• 素性を調べる、素性を洗う
  to inquire into one's antecedents

• 素性不明の人間だ
  He is a man of unknown antecedents.
• あの人なら素性がわかっているから安心して使える
  We can trust him, as he is a man of known antecedents.

4

（＝身元） identity

用例

• 死体は素性が判明したか
  Has the body been identified?

• 素性未だ判明せず
  It is not yet identified.
• ある商家の娘と素性が判明した
  It has been identified as a tradesman's daughter.

5

〈その他〉

用例

• この品は素性が好い
  The article is of good manufacture
  It is a genuine article.

• この品は素性がわかっている
  The article is of known manufacture
  The goods come from known producers.
• 値段が安過ぎるから品の素性があやしい
  The price is too low for the article to have been honestly come by
  The low price shows it to be a stolen article.