英和和英

読み方 ふこう

名詞

Unfilialness, undutifulness, disobedience （to one's parents）:（=な） unfilial, undutiful, disobedient （child）

用例

• 不孝者
  an undutiful son
  a bad son

• この不孝者め
  You have forgotten your duty to your parents.
• 親に手向う不孝者
  Dare you forget your duty and raise your hand against your own father?
• 家名を汚す不孝者
  You are a disgrace to your family.
• 親に先立つ不孝の罪はゆるし給え
  My parents will forgive their undutiful child who goes to a better place before them.

読み方 ふこう

名詞

1

（＝身の不幸）misfortune; ill luck:（=な） unfortunate; unlucky; luckless; ill-fated; ill-starred:（=にも） unfortunately; unluckily; by ill luck; as ill luck would have it; in an evil hour

用例

• 不幸に逢う
  to meet with a misfortune―fall upon evil days―light upon bad times―A misfortune happens to me―A misfortune befalls one―A shadow falls on one

• 彼は不幸に遭遇してかえって世間の同情を得た
  His misfortune won him public sympathy.
• 彼女に逢ったのが身の不幸だ
  I met her in an evil hour.
• 彼は不幸にも幼い時両親に死に別れた
  He was so unfortunate as to―had the misfortune to―lose both his parents in his infancy.
• 彼は不幸にして富貴に生まれた
  He was so unfortunate as to―had the misfortune to―be born rich.
• 身の不幸を歎く
  to bewail one's misfortune―curse the day of one's birth
• 不幸を託｛かこ｝つ
  to repine at misfortune
• 不幸に屈する
  to sink under misfortune
• 不幸に逢っても屈せぬ
  to bear up under misfortune―have fortitude under misfortune
• 世の不幸な人々に同情する
  I sympathize with the unfortunate.

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用例

• 貧は不幸と見せて実は幸福
  Poverty is a blessing in disguise.

• 不幸中の幸いだ
  That's one consolation.
• しかしけがの無かったのは不幸中の幸いだ
  But it is one consolation to think that he has got off with a whole skin.
• 不幸中に幸いあり
  “Every cloud has a silver lining.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 彼は重ね重ねの不幸に逢った
  He has been the sport of chance―the sport of fortune―He has had a chapter of accidents―an Iliad of woes.
• 貯蓄して不幸に備える
  to lay by against a rainy day

2

（＝心の不幸）unhappiness; misery:（=な） unhappy; miserable; wretched

用例

• 彼は不幸な月日を送っている
  He leads an unhappy life.

• 不幸な一生を送った
  He lived an unhappy life
  He was unhappy all his life.
• 不幸の淵に沈む
  to sink into the depth of misery

3

（＝親身の死亡）the death, the loss （of a loved one）; bereavement; affliction

用例

• 不幸に逢う
  to have a loss―be bereaved （of a loved one）

• 不幸に逢った人に悔みを言う
  to condole with one on one's affliction
• 親類に不幸があって娘は手伝いに行きました
  A relation of ours has had a loss, and she has gone to help them.
• 不幸のあった家
  a bereaved family