英和和英

読み方 もてあそぶ

他動詞

1

（＝玩弄する）to play with （a toy）; to toy with （anything）

用例

• 刃物をもてあそんではいかん
  It is ill playing with edged tools.

• 女をもてあそぶ
  to toy with a girl―dally with a woman―handle a girl

2

（＝翻弄する）to trifle with, play with, sport with, play fast and loose with （a girl's feelings）; to flirt with, coquette with, make a fool of, fool （a man）; to play on （one's feelings）; to trifle with, palter with, fribble with （sacred things）; to flirt with （a party）; to toss about （a ship）

用例

• 人の感情をもてあそぶ
  to play on one's feelings

• （男が）女の感情をもてあそぶ
  to trifle with a girl's feelings―trifle with a female heart
• 私はあの方にもてあそばれました
  He has trifled with my feelings.
• （女が）男をもてあそぶ
  to make a fool of a man―flirt with a man―coquette with a man
• 男をもてあそびほうだいもてあそぶ
  to fool a man to the top of his bent
• 僕は女にもてあそばれた
  I have been made a fool of.
• 女を弄ぶ男
  a libertine
• 男をもてあそぶ女
  a coquette
  a flirt
• 婦人の貞操をもてあそぶ
  to trifle with a woman's virtue
• 法律をもてあそぶ
  to palter with the law
• 運命にもてあそばれる
  to be the sport of fortune
• 船が波にもてあそばれる
  A ship is tossed about by the sea.
• 人にもてあそばれるな
  Do not suffer yourself to be played with!

3

（＝玩愛する）to practise （art） as a recreation

用例

• 音楽をもてあそぶ
  to practise music as a recreation

• 文筆をもてあそぶ
  to write for pleasure―scribble for pleasure
• 兵をもてあそぶ
  to wage war for war's sake
• 学問をもてあそぶ
  to love learning for learning's sake
• 色をもてあそぶ
  to indulge in sensual pleasures