英和和英

読み方 ぬすむ

他動詞

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用例

• 暇を偸む
  to snatch a moment―spare time from business

• 暫く職務の暇を偸んで来た
  I have snatched a few minutes from my duties.
• 本職の暇を偸む
  to spare time from one's business
• 彼は職業の暇を偸んで読書する
  He spends in reading all the time he can spare from his business.
• これは本職の暇を偸んで書いた本だ
  The book was written in the intervals of my professional business.
• 人は忙しいと寸暇を偸んで読書する
  A busy man will read at odd moments.
• 苟安｛こうあん｝を偸む
  to snatch a moment of ease
• 忙中の閑を偸む
  to snatch a leisure hour from pressure of business

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用例

• 人目を偸む
  to avoid observation―elude observation―shun observation

• 人目を偸んで悪いことをする
  He does evil in secret―by stealth―on the sly.
• 二人は人目を偸んで逢った
  They met in secret―arranged clandestine meetings.
• 彼は久しく警察の目を偸んだ奴だ
  He has long eluded the police.
• 親の目を偸む
  to elude paternal vigilance
• 彼は親の目を偸んで遊びに行く
  He visits gay quarters by eluding paternal vigilance
  He takes surreptitious pleasure.
• 親の目を偸んで河へ泳ぎに行った
  I went for a surreptitious swim in the river.
• 黒人｛くろうと｝の目は偸めぬ
  One can not deceive a trained eye
  The blemish will not escape a trained eye.

3

• 足音を偸んで忍び寄った
  He approached with stealthy steps―on tiptoe.

4

• 禄を偸む
  to have a sinecure

5

• 天下を偸む
  to usurp the throne