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1

（＝数が多い）many; numerous

用例

• 人数が多い
  There are many persons.

• 知っている者が多い
  Many people know.
• 知らない者が多い
  There are many people who do not know.
• 日本人には英語を話す者が多い
  Many Japanese speak English.
• 世に書多し
  There are many books in the world
  Books, their name is legion.
• 英学者は多い
  There are many English scholars.
• あの人は癖が多い
  He has many faults.
• この流行病は軍隊に多い
  There are many cases of the epidemic in the army.
• 太平洋に島が多い
  There are many islands in the Pacific Ocean
  Numerous islands are found in the Pacific Ocean.
• 先生は著述が多い
  His writings are numerous.
• 今年は生徒が少し多い
  There are a few more students than usual this year.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 海軍には薩州人が多い
  Satsuma men predominate in the army.

• あの家は蠅が多い
  The house swarms with flies.
• 向島は蚊が多い
  Mukojima swarms with mosquitoes.
• 神田は学生が多い
  Kanda swarms with students.
• 台湾は蛇が多い
  Formosa crawls with snakes.
• 彼の文章は漢語が多い
  His style bristles with Chinese expressions.
• この本はむずかしい言葉が多い
  The book bristles with hard words.
• この本は誤植が多い
  The book is full of misprints.
• 今年は入学志願者が非常に多かった
  The school was deluged with applications for entrance this year.
• この事業は困難が多い
  The undertaking is beset with difficulties.
• この企画は危険が多い
  The enterprise is fraught with dangers.
• 日本は山が多い
  Japan is mountainous.

2

（＝量が多い）much

用例

• 日本は雨が多い
  There is much rain―Much rain falls―It rains much―in Japan.

• 越後は雪が多い
  Much snow falls in Echigo
  Echigo is a snowy country.
• 今年は雪が少し多い
  It snows rather more than usual this year.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• アイヌ人は毛が多い
  The Ainos are hairy.

• この果物は汁が多い
  This fruit is juicy―succulent.
• この商売は利益が多い
  The business is lucrative.
• この土地は砂が多い
  The soil is sandy.

3

（＝度数が多い）frequent

用例

• 東京は火事が多い
  Fires are frequent―of frequent occurrence―in Tokyo.

• 日本は地震が多い
  Japan is subject to frequent earthquakes.

4

（＝沢山ある）abundant; plentiful

用例

• 日本は物産が多い
  Japan is rich in products.

• 北海道は海産物が多い
  Marine products are abundant in Hokkaido
  Marine products abound in Hokkaido
  Hokkaido abounds in marine products
  Hokkaido is rich in marine products.
• 日本は魚類が多い
  Fish is plentiful in Japan
  There is plenty of fish in Japan.
• 日本の沿海は魚類が多い
  The seas about Japan teem with fish.
• 十九世紀は発見や発明が多かった
  The Nineteenth Century was fruitful in discoveries and inventions.

副詞

（＝しばしばある）often; frequently; in many cases; on many occasions

用例

• 彼は晩に出かけることが多い
  He often goes out in the evening.

• 彼は学校を休むことが多い
  He frequently absents himself from school.
• この品は切れることが多い
  It frequently happens that the article is out of stock.
• 酒が毒になることが多い（人が多い）
  Wine does harm in many cases.
• この言葉を使うことが多い
  This word is used on many occasions.