英和和英

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名詞

Company; the public:（体裁の意味に用いれば）decency; decorum

用例

• 人前で
  in company―in public

• 人前で恥をかく
  to be put to shame in company―expose one's ignorance in public
• 人前で恥をかくのはいやだから尋ねるわけにもいかぬ
  I can't be asking questions, for it will never do to expose my ignorance in public.
• 人前で恥をかかせられる
  to be insulted in public
• 人前をはばかる
  to have a sense of decency―preserve one's decorum
• 人前をはばかって
  for the sake of decency―from a sense of decency
• 人前をはばかって泣かずにいた
  I refrained from tears for the sake of decency―from a sense of decency.
• 人前をはばからぬ
  to have no sense of decency―have no sense of decorum
• 君は人前の悪いことをするじゃないか
  Have you no sense of decency?―no sense of decorum?
• 人前をはばからず
  in defiance of decorum―in the presence of company
• 西洋人は人前をはばからずいちゃつく
  Foreigners make public demonstrations of affection in defiance of all decorum.
• 二人は人前をはばからずふざけちらす
  They carry on in the presence of company.
• 人前があるからそんなことは止し給え
  Do not do such a thing in the presence of company―before strangers.
• 人前を繕う
  to save appearances
• 彼は人前の好いことを言っている
  He says such things to save appearances.
• 彼らが働くのは人前ばかりだ
  They work to save appearances
  Theirs is eye-service.
• この身形｛みなり｝では人前へ出られない
  I am not fit to be seen―not presentable.