英和和英

読み方 まぎらす

他動詞

1

To divert （one's mind from care）; to distract （one's mind）; to relieve （the tedium）; to beguile （time of its tedium）

用例

• 心をまぎらす、気をまぎらす
  to divert one's mind （from care）―distract one's mind

• 芝居へ行って気をまぎらそうとした
  I went to the play to distract my thoughts.
• 退屈をまぎらす
  to relieve the tedium―beguile the time―while away the time―kill time

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用例

• 酒に苦労をまぎらす
  to drown care in wine

• 酒を飲んで悲しみをまぎらす
  to drink down sorrow
• 不平を酒にまぎらそうとした
  I tried to forget my discontent in dissipation.
• 活動をして不幸をまぎらす
  to forget one's misery in activity
• 笑いにまぎらす
  to laugh a matter off―laugh a matter away
• 苦労を笑いにまぎらす
  to laugh care away
• 悲しみを笑いまぎらす
  to laugh sorrow away
• 腹の立つのを笑いにまぎらす
  to laugh off one's vexations
• 事を冗談にまぎらす
  to treat a matter as a joke

自動詞

（＝言いまぎらす）to equivocate; to quibble; to dodge; to shuffle; to shift and prevaricate