英和和英

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名詞

1

（＝商業）commerce; trade; business; traffic; commercial pursuits; mercantile pursuits:（=する） to engage in commerce; to carry on commerce; to carry on trade; to do business; to traffic

用例

• ご商売は
  What is your business?
  What line of business are you engaged in?
  What do you deal in?

• 私の商売は呉服屋です
  I am a draper.
• 商売をする
  to engage in commerce―carry on commerce―carry on trade―prosecute a trade―drive a trade―engage in business―do business―run a business―conduct a business
• 彼は商売をしている
  He is doing business―in business―engaged in business.
• 商売をするなら資本を出してやろう
  If you engage in business,―go into business,―I will furnish you with capital.
• 資本無しで商売する
  to do business without capital 【イディオム・格言的には：】“make bricks without straw”―“live by one's wits”
• あの人は資本無しの商売だ
  He lives by his wits.
• 彼は主人から暇を取って独立に商売をしている
  He has left his master's service, and is doing business for himself―doing business on his own account.
• 彼は月に一万円の商売をする
  He does business to the amount of 10,000 yen a month
  He turns over 10,000 yen a month.
• 商売をして成功した（失敗した）
  He has succeeded in business―failed in business.
• 商売をして儲けた（損をした）
  He has gained by his business―lost by his business.
• 彼は商売をして身代をこしらえた
  He has made a fortune by commerce―by trade―by business.
• 商売を始める
  to go into business―take to business―set up in business―start a business
• 彼は主人から暇を取って独立に商売を始めた
  He has left his master's service, and set up for himself.
• 僕は素手で（手始めの資本無しに）商売を始めた
  I went into business with nothing to start with
  I started with nothing.
• 商売が繁昌する
  to do good business―drive a good trade
• ご商売はご繁昌ですか
  How is your business doing?
• 商売は繁昌かと尋ねた
  I inquired after his business.
• 商売はかなり繁昌です
  My business is doing pretty well.
• 彼は商売が大繁昌だ
  He drives a roaring trade.
• 商売は場所で繁昌する
  Business depends on the locality
  The locality brings the business.
• 家内安全商売繁昌
  Peace to the household and prosperity to the business!
• 商売が忙しい
  Business is brisk.
• 商売が暇だ
  Business is slack
  Trade is dull
  Trade is languid.
• 商売がまるっきり暇だ
  We do no business at all
  Trade is at a low ebb.
• 商売がパッタリ止まった
  Trade is at a standstill.
• 本屋の商売は夏は全く暇です
  The bookseller's trade is at a standstill in summer.
• あの人は商売が上手だ
  He is a good man of business.
• 彼はこの商売に明るい
  He is versed in the business―conversant with the business.
• 彼は商売仲間だ
  He is in the business―in the trade―in the line.
• 商売の方では彼と関係が無い
  I have no relations with him in the way of business.
• 商売になるか
  Does it pay?
• こう安く売っては商売にならない
  It doesn't pay to sell so cheap.
• 商売を止める
  to give up one's business―retire from business―shut up shop
• 彼は商売を止めて楽隠居の身だ
  He has retired from business, and lives at his ease.
• 僕は商売を止めてばかなことをした
  I committed a folly in giving up my business.
• 不景気のために商売を止めた商人がある
  Some tradesmen have shut up shop owing to the badness of the times.
• 彼は息子に商売を譲って隠居した
  He has made over his business to his son, and retired from active life.
• （英国では）何商売でも日曜には休むか
  Do all shops close on Sunday?
• 商売は商売だから
  Business is business.

2

（＝職業）an occupation; a calling; a business; a trade; a profession

用例

• あの人は商売は何だ
  What is his business?
  What is his trade?
  What is his profession?

• 彼はきまった商売が無い
  He has no regular occupation
  He lives by his wits.
• 商売は大工だ
  He is a carpenter by trade.
• ばくちが商売だ
  He is a gambler by profession.
• 商売を覚える
  to learn a trade
• 彼は石切りの商売を覚えた
  He has learned the stone-cutter's trade.
• 商売はみっちり覚えなくてはならない
  You must learn your trade well.
• 商売の秘訣を覚える
  to learn the tricks of the trade―be initiated into the mysteries of the trade
• 子どもに商売を仕込む
  to train a boy to some trade―bring up a boy to some trade
• 子どもに商売を仕込まぬ者は賊を養う
  One who brings up his boy to nothing, breeds a thief.
• 商売を励む
  to give one's mind to business―to be enthusiastic in one's business
• 彼は穴探しを商売にしている
  He makes it his business to find faults in others.
• 私は道楽に釣りをするのではない商売です
  I do not fish for pleasure, but as a business―for a living.
• 昼間寝て夜働く商売がある
  Some people sleep by day and work by night.
• 彼は処を嫌わず商売の話を出しかける
  He talks shops wherever he goes.
• 一般の人と話をする時は商売の話を出すな
  Sink the shop in talking with ordinary people.
• 彼は商売の臭味が抜けない
  He smells of the shop.
• 人間商売
  the business of life
• 商売共仇敵
  “Two of a trade never agree.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 商売は道によって賢し（商売は門々）
  “Every man to his trade.”【イディオム・格言的】