英和和英

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1

To be proud; to be haughty; to be stuck-up; to be puffed up; to be pompous; to be pretentious; to be pretending; to swell with pride; to put on side; to hold up one's head; to hold one's head high; to stand upon one's dignity; to look big; to talk big; to have influence

用例

• 彼は威張る
  He puts on side―stands upon his dignity.

• 威張っている
  He is proud―haughty―stuck-up.
• あの人は学校で威張っている
  He has influence in the school.
• 小役人は威張りたがる
  Petty officials are apt to be pompous.
• 小役人のくせに威張っていいる
  He is a Jack in office.
• あの人は自分ばかり偉いつもりで威張っている
  He is puffed up with a sense of his own importance.
• 威張りくさっている
  He is swollen with pride―bloated with pride―inflated with pride―consumed with pride―eaten up with pride―high and mighty.
• あんな者に威張らしておくのは慨歎に堪えぬ
  It is a shame that such men should hold up their heads.
• 彼はあまり威張っているから凹ませてやって実に愉快だ
  I am very glad to have humbled his pride.
• これだけ書けりゃ威張ったもんだ
  If you can write so well, you ought to be proud.
• あれだけ金がありゃ威張ったものだ
  His wealth ought to make him proud.
• 彼は威張っていて僕らにものも言わない
  He disdains to speak to us.
• 威張っていて返事もしない
  He will not deign to answer me.
• 威張ったことを言う
  to talk big―talk tall
• 彼は相変わらず威張ったことを言っていたが、いよいよという時にへこたれてしまった
  He had been talking big as usual, but faltered at the last moment.
• 威張って歩く
  to strut along―stalk about―swagger about
• 島津とか毛利とかいうと威張った家柄だ
  The Shimazus and Moris are families of high pretensions.
• 彼はちょいと威張った家に住んでいる
  He lives in a pretending house―a pretentious house.

2

（＝何を威張る）to be proud of （one's birth）; to take pride in （one's profession）; to stand on, pride oneself on, value oneself on, pique oneself on, plume oneself on, peacock oneself on （on one's skill, etc.）

用例

• 彼は金を持って威張っている
  He stands on his riches
  He is proud of his wealth
  He is a purse-proud man.

• 彼は英語ができるって威張っているからおかしい
  He prides himself on his English.
• あれだけ学問ができりゃ威張るのももっともだ
  He may well proud of his scholarship―takes a just pride in his attainments.

3

（＝人に対して威張る）to domineer over （one）; to lord it over （one）; to be overbearing towards （one）

用例

• 彼は下々に対して威張りちらす
  He domineers over his inferiors―lords it over his inferiors.

• 昔は西洋人が日本人に対して威張ったものだ
  The foreigners used to lord it over the Japanese.
• 小役人に威張られるとしゃくにさわる
  It is exasperating to be lorded over―domineered over―by petty officials.
• あの先生は生徒に横柄で威張り過ぎる
  He is too overbearing towards the students.

4

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用例

• 彼は威張って及第した
  He came off with flying colours.

• 大威張りで帰って来た
  He returned in triumph.
• この手際ならどこへ出しても威張ったものだ
  The performance compares favourably with any.
• この作ならどこへ持って行っても威張ったものだ
  The work will bear comparison with the best of them.