英和和英

読み方 ぬすむ

他動詞

1

用例

• 暇を偸む
  to snatch a moment―spare time from business

• 暫く職務の暇を偸んで来た
  I have snatched a few minutes from my duties.
• 本職の暇を偸む
  to spare time from one's business
• 彼は職業の暇を偸んで読書する
  He spends in reading all the time he can spare from his business.
• これは本職の暇を偸んで書いた本だ
  The book was written in the intervals of my professional business.
• 人は忙しいと寸暇を偸んで読書する
  A busy man will read at odd moments.
• 苟安｛こうあん｝を偸む
  to snatch a moment of ease
• 忙中の閑を偸む
  to snatch a leisure hour from pressure of business

2

用例

• 人目を偸む
  to avoid observation―elude observation―shun observation

• 人目を偸んで悪いことをする
  He does evil in secret―by stealth―on the sly.
• 二人は人目を偸んで逢った
  They met in secret―arranged clandestine meetings.
• 彼は久しく警察の目を偸んだ奴だ
  He has long eluded the police.
• 親の目を偸む
  to elude paternal vigilance
• 彼は親の目を偸んで遊びに行く
  He visits gay quarters by eluding paternal vigilance
  He takes surreptitious pleasure.
• 親の目を偸んで河へ泳ぎに行った
  I went for a surreptitious swim in the river.
• 黒人｛くろうと｝の目は偸めぬ
  One can not deceive a trained eye
  The blemish will not escape a trained eye.

3

• 足音を偸んで忍び寄った
  He approached with stealthy steps―on tiptoe.

4

• 禄を偸む
  to have a sinecure

5

• 天下を偸む
  to usurp the throne

読み方 ぬすむ

他動詞

To steal （anything from a person or a place）; to rob （a man of his money）; to pilfer, purloin, crib （small articles from a store）:（綺麗に言えば）to abstract （a bank-note from a bundle）; to make free with （others' possessions）:（以下特例）to plagiarize （others' writings）; to father （another's work）; to crib （another's writings）; to pirate, gut （a book）

用例

• 僕は時計を盗まれた
  My watch was stolen―（と言うよりも）―I had my watch stolen.

• 金を盗まれた
  I had my money stolen
  I was robbed of my money.
• 女中が主人の財布から金を盗んだ
  The servant abstracted some money from her master's purse.
• 彼は下男が酒を盗んで困ると言っている
  He complains of his servant making free with his wine.
• 人の家へ盗みに入る
  to break into a house―（泥棒の符牒では）―crack a crib
• あの人は人の作を盗むという評判だ
  He is accused of fathering others' works―plagiarizing others' works.
• 本の内容を盗む
  to gut a book
• 本を盗んで出版する
  to pirate a book
• 禄を盗む
  to have a sinecure
• 天下を盗む
  to usurp the throne
• 耳を掩って鈴を盗む
  “The cat shuts her eyes while she steals the cream.”【イディオム・格言的】