英和和英

読み方 ようじ

名詞

An infant:（=の） infant; infantile; infantine

• 幼児預かり所
  a public nursery
  a crèche

読み方 ようじ

名詞

Infancy; childhood

用例

• 彼は幼時に父母を失った
  He lost both his parents in his infancy.

• 司馬温公は幼時より聡明なりき
  Shiba Onko was wise from his childhood upward.
• 彼の天才は幼時より現れた
  His genius asserted itself at an early age.
• 幼時より語学の才あり
  He early showed an aptitude for languages.
• 幼時に世に出た
  He was thrown upon the world early in life.

読み方 ようじ

名詞

1

（＝歯磨き楊枝）a tooth-brush

• 楊枝で歯を磨く
  to brush one's teeth―clean one's teeth

2

（＝歯をほじる小楊枝）a toothpick

用例

• 楊枝で歯をほじる
  to pick-one's teeth―use a toothpick

• 重箱の隅を楊枝でほじくる
  to split hairs―over-refine
• 重箱の隅を楊枝でほじくるような研究法
  hair-splitting―over-refinement―micrology

読み方 ようじ

名詞

Business （to attend to）

用例

• 僕は用事がある
  I have some business to attend to
  I have something to do
  I am engaged.

• 今用事があって手が放されぬ
  I am particularly engaged just now.
• 君は何か用事があるか
  Have you any business to attend to?
  Have you anything to do?
  Are you engaged?
• 何も用事が無い
  I have no business to attend to
  I have nothing to do
  I am not engaged
  I am free.
• ほかに用事が無い
  I have no other business to attend to
  I have nothing else to do
  I am not otherwise engaged.
• ほかに用事がある
  I have some other business to attend to
  I have something else to do
  I have other fish to fry
  I am otherwise engaged.
• もうここに居る用事が無い
  I have no business to detain me.
• 今日は用事があって来ました
  I have called on business.
• ちと大事な用事があって
  I have called on particular business.
• 父は用事があって上京しました
  Father has come to town on business―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Business has brought father to town.
• 用事があって田舎の方へ行って来る
  I am going into the countly on business―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Business calls me into the country.
• どういう用事でおいでですか
  What is the nature of your business?
• 用事を済ます
  to finish one's business―get quit of one's business
• 用事が済んだ
  I have finished my business
  I am quit of my business.
• 用事を片づける
  to despatch one's business―make an end of one's business