英和和英

読み方 きり

名詞

1

（＝切れ目）a places to leave off

• ここがちょうどきりが好い
  This is a good place to leave off.

2

（＝際限）limits; bounds; end

用例

• 慾にはきりが無い
  Avarice knows no bounds
  There is no limit to avarice.

• 望めばきりが無い
  There is no limit to desire.
• あの男の無心はきりが無い
  There is no end to his requests.
• 人の言うことを一々聞いていてはきりが無い
  If you listen to everything people say, there will be no end to it.
• くれくれするときりが無い
  If you give everytime he asks, there will be no end to it.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 君の言うことを聞くと我も我もできりが無い
  If I comply with your request, I shall be flooded with requests.

• 便々と待っていてはきりが無い
  I can not wait for ever.
• あの男の金を返すのを待っていてはきりが無い
  If you wait for him to pay, you will have to wait for ever.
• 彼に言わしておくときりが無い
  If you let him talk, he will go on talking to the end of time.
• わがままをさせるときりが無い
  If you let him have his own way, he will end by pulling the house about his cars.
• 上を見ればきりが無い
  Greatness is comparative.

副詞

1

（＝だけ） all; only alone

用例

• 成功したのは一人きり
  Only one man has succeeded.

• 成功したのは君きりだ
  You are the only man who has succeeded
  You alone have succeeded.
• ある金はこれきりか
  Is this all the money there is?
  Is this all the money you have?
• 残っている金はこれきりだ
  This is all the money there is left.
• （皆行って）もう君と二人きりになった
  We are alone.
• 君と僕と二人きりでたくさんだ
  We two alone are enough.
• 後一週間切りだ
  It will last only a week more.
• 今度きり説明する
  I will explain once for all.

2

（＝だけ）（this is） all; （that was） the last

用例

• あれっきりもう無い
  That was all I had
  That was the last I had.

• これきりもう無心をしない
  This is the last request I shall make.
• あれっきり会わない
  That was the last I saw of him.
• 彼はあれっきり来ない
  That was the last time he came.
• 今日きりでおしまいだ
  This is the last day.
• 昨日きりでおしまいになった
  Yesterday was the last.

接尾詞

1

For good （and all）; never to （do something again）

用例

• 今度は帰りきりに帰ったのだ
  I have come home for good （and all）.

• 彼は行ききりに行ったのだ
  He has gone away for good and all.
• 彼は国を出たきり帰らない
  He left home, never to return.
• 寝たっきり起きない
  He lay down, never to rise again.
• 沈んだっきり浮かない
  He sank beneath the waves, never to rise again.
• 取りっきりで返さない
  He took it, never to return it.

2

（＝その後）since

• それっきり会わない
  I have not seen him since.

接続詞

Since

用例

• 彼は三年前に家出したきりなんの消息も無い
  He has not been heard of since he left home three years ago.

• 彼には神戸で別れたきり会わない
  I have not met him since I parted from him in Kobe.