英和和英

読み方 つもる

自動詞

（＝堆積する）to accumulate; to cumulate; to be amassed

用例

• 塵が積もる
  Dust accumulates.

• 塵が積もっている
  Dust lies thick on the floor or furniture.
• 塵積もって山となる
  Dust amassed will make a mountain
  “Many a pickle makes a mickle.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 積もりては払うに
  When dust amassed a mountain makes,
• 　難くなりぬべし
  'Tis hard to shake it off;
• 　塵ばかりなる
  So fares it with man who will
• 　事と思えど
  At trifles laugh and scoff.
• 雪が積もる
  Snow lies on the ground.
• たいそう雪が積もった
  Snow lies deep on the ground.
• 雪が五寸積もった
  Snow lies six inches deep
  Six inches of snow has fallen.
• この雪は積もるね
  This snow will stay.
• この雪は積もらない
  This snow will not stay.
• 小遣いも積もると大したものだ
  Small expenses come up to a large sum.
• 借金が積もり積もって五百円
  The debts have run up to 500 yen.
• 積もる話
  accumulated matter for talk
• 積もる話をする
  to compare notes （with each other）
• 積もる話がしてみたい
  I should like to compare notes with him
  I have so much to tell him.
• お互いに積もる話が有るだろう
  You must have a hundred recollections to exchange with each other.

他動詞

1

（＝見積る）to estimate （the cost at 1,000 yen）; to value （the goods at 10,000 yen）; to calculate （the attendance at 100）; to put （the number at so many）; to rate （anything high or low）

用例

• 建築費は一万円と積もってある
  The cost o. building is estimated at 10,000 yen.

• 物品の価格は五千円と積もってある
  The goods are valued at 5,000 yen.
• 来会者はざっと千名と積もってよかろう
  The attendance may be roughly calculated at 1,000―put at 1,000.
• 費用を積もる
  to estimate the expenses―make an estimate of the expenses
• ざっと積もる
  to make a rough estimate
• 入費はざっと積もって五百円はかかる
  The expenses may be roughly estimated at 500 yen.
• 高く積もる、安く積もる
  to estimate or rate anything high or low
• 高く積もっても百万円は有るまい
  He can not be worth a million at most.
• 安く積もっても五十万円は有るだろう
  He must be worth half a million at least.
• この家は金に積もると二万円がものはある
  The house may be valued at 20,000 yen.
• 時価に積もると三万円がものはある
  It is worth 30,000 yen at the current price.
• 人間の価値は金に積もれない
  A man's worth is priceless―above price.

2

（＝限る）to stint, skimp, pinch （one in food or money）

用例

• 食物を積もって当てがう
  to stint one in food―skimp one in food―pinch one in （or of or for） food

• 小遣いを積もって当てがわれるから自由が利かない
  I have my freedom restricted, for I am stinted in my pocket-money.