英和和英

読み方 みさお

名詞

1

（＝男の節操）constancy; fidelity; honour; principles

用例

• 政治家の操
  fidelity to one's political principles

• 操を守る
  to remain faithful to one's cause―adhere to one's principles―stick to one's colours
• 操を売る
  to sell one's honour for money―prostitute one's honour

2

（＝女の貞操）chastity; （female） honour; （feminine） virtue; （a girl's） virginity, maidenhead:（男に対する操）constancy:（夫に対する操）fidelity

用例

• 操を守
  to preserve one's chastity―remain constant―remain faithful

• 男に操を立てる
  to remain constant to―remain faithful to―be true to―a man
• 若後家が亡人に対して操を立て通した
  The young widow remained faithful to the memory of her husband.
• 女は男に操を立てなかった
  She was false to him.
• 操を破る
  to lose one's chastity―stray from the path of virtue
• 女は一度操を破ると一生のキズもの
  If a woman once loses her chastity, she is ruined for life.
• あの女は操を汚している
  She has lost her chastity
  She has strayed from the path of virtue
  She has a spot on her honour.
• 男が女の操を躙蹂する（汚す、弄ぶ）
  A man dishonours a woman―seduces a woman―ruins a girl―betrays a girl―plucks a flower.
• 女が男に操を捧げる
  A woman surrenders her chastity to a man―gives herself to a man.
• 操を売る
  to sell one's chastity―prostitute oneself
• 操正しき婦人だ
  She is a chaste woman―a virtuous lady.
• 操を正しくする
  to live a chaste life
• 操の高い婦人だ
  She is the soul of honour.
• 操の鑑だ
  She is a paragon of virtue―a pattern of female honour.
• 操の鏡曇り無き婦人だ
  She has not a spot on her honour.
• 操の無い女だ
  She is an unchaste woman―a frail woman―a profligate woman.