英和和英

読み方 だんだん

名詞

1

（＝床などの段々）tiers

• 席が段々になっている
  The seats are in tiers.

2

（＝階段）a flight of stairs; a flight of steps

• 石の段々を登ると神社がある
  A flight of stone steps leads to a shrine.

副詞

1

（＝次第に）gradually; by degrees; step by step; little by little; more and more; one after another

用例

• 一躍して昇るよりだんだん昇る方が安全だ
  It is safer to rise step by step than rise at a bound.

• だんだん進む
  to improve by degrees―make gradual progress
• だんだん温かになる
  It gets warmer by degrees―grows warmer and warmer.
• 英語がだんだん面白くなる
  English becomes more and more interesting to me
  I am getting more and more interested in the study of English.
• 英語がだんだんわかってきた
  I begin to understand English better.
• だんだん覚えるよりほかない
  We must learn little by little.
• 客がだんだん帰る
  One guests after another departs
  Guest after guest departs.
• 船がだんだん遠くなる
  The ship gradually recedes from the view.
• 音がだんだん遠くなる
  The sound becomes fainter and fainter.
• 病勢がだんだん募る
  His illness grows worse and worse.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 例の癖がだんだん募ってきた
  His habit is growing upon him―gaining upon him.

• 風力がだんだん募る
  The storm gathers.
• 病人はだんだん力がつく
  The invalid gathers strength.
• 時がだんだんたつ
  Times wears on.
• 靴の底がだんだん減る
  The soles wear away.
• 東京の場末もだんだん開ける
  The outskirts of Tokyo are opening up.
• 借金をだんだん返す
  to work off one's debts
• だんだんと信任を得る
  to work into one's confidence
• 女がだんだんと男の魂を奪った
  She won upon his heart.
• 風がだんだん静まる
  The wind dies away.
• 鐘の音が夜陰に響いてだんだん静まる
  The sound of the bell dies on the night air.

2

（＝引続いて）continually

• だんだんお世話になりました
  I thank you for your continued goodness to me.