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名詞

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The usual state of things; the ordinary course of nature; a common occurrence; normal condition; one's habit; one's custom; one's wont:（=の） usual （work）; ordinary （life）; normal （ability）; common （occurrence）; habitual （action）; customary （proceedings）; wonted （civilities）; everyday （clothes）:（=に） usually; habitually; always; at ordinary times; at other times

用例

• 彼は常に早起きだ
  He usually rises early
  He is an early riser.

• 常のように早く起きた
  He rose early as usual―as is usual with him―as is his custom―as is his wont.
• 先生は常にそう言われる
  Our teacher always says so.
• 彼は常に酒を飲む
  He is a habitual drinker.
• 常に冷水浴をすると身体が強壮になる
  The habitual use of cold-water bathing will make you robust in health.
• 彼は常に勉強する
  He is in the habit of working hard.
• 常にもっと勉強すれば試験前にあわてることは無い
  If you worked harder at other times, you would not have to get flurried before the examination.
• 彼はいったい常に勉強しない
  He does not work hard at the best of times.
• 常ならもっと安いのだ
  It would be cheaper at other times.
• 常に養生すれば病気にかからない
  Make a habit of taking good care of your health, and you will escape illness.
• 支那ではそんなことは常だ
  Such things are of common occurrence in China.

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用例

• それが世の常だ、浮世の常だ
  That is the way of the world.

• 不幸に同情するのは人情の常だ
  It is human nature to sympathize with the unfortunate.
• 一勝一敗は戦争の常である
  Success or failure is incidental to warfare.

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• 何々を常とする
  to be in the habit of doing something―wont to do something―usual with one to do something―a custom with one to do something―to make it a custom to―make it a rule to―do something

• 僕は間食をせぬことを常としている
  I make it a rule not to eat between meals.
• 彼は夜更しするのを常としている
  He is in the habit of sitting up till late
  He is wont to sit up till late
  It is usual with him to sit up till late
  It is a custom with him to sit up till late
  He makes it a custom to sit up till late.
• 彼は困っている人を助けるのが常だ
  He is in the habit of helping people in need
  He delights to help people in need.
• 何々を常とした
  He used to do something―was wont to do something.
• 彼は試験前に徹夜するのを常とした
  He used to sit up all night before the examination
  He was wont to sit up all night before the examination
  He was in the habit of sitting up all night before the examination.
• 常として
  as is usual with...
• 女の常として彼女は虚栄心が強い
  As is usual with women, she is vain
  She is vain, as women will be.
• 虚栄心は女の常だ
  It is usual with women to be vain
  Women will be vain.
• 名利に奔走するのは凡俗の常だ
  It is usual with people to toil for wealth or fame
  People will toil for wealth or fame.
• 学生の常として彼はあればあるだけ使ってしまう
  As is usual with students, he will spend all he has
  He will spend all he has, as students will.
• あればあるだけ使ってしまうのは学生の常だ
  It is usual with a student to spend all he has
  A student will spend all he has.
• 苦学力行は日本学生の常だ
  It is usual with Japanese students to pursue knowledge under difficulties.
• 身体の弱い子どもの常として彼は学問にこりたがる
  As is usual with boys of weak constitution, he will fling himself into books
  He flings himself into books, as boys of weak constitution will.
• 身体の弱い少年は学問にこるのが常だ
  A boy of weak constitution will fling himself into books.
• 人を嫉むのは凡夫の常だ
  It is usual with ordinary mortals to be envious
  Envy is a sign of mediocrity.

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• 常ならぬ
  unusual （result）―extraordinary （strength）―uncommon （ability）―unwonted （civility）―abnormal （genius, etc.）

• 彼は常ならぬ才能を有している
  He possesses uncommon abilities―extraordinary powers―abnormal talents.
• 彼の常ならぬ丁寧さには何か意味があろうと思った
  I suspected some design in his unwonted civility.
• 常ならぬ心地がする
  I feel queer.
• お顔色が常のようでない
  You do not look your usual self.
• 彼女は常ならぬ身だ
  She is with child―in the family way―in an interesting condition.

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• 常無し
  to be constantly changing―unstable―mutable

• 世は変遷常無し
  The world is mutable.
• 人事の常無きことを感じた
  I am impressed with the mutability of human things.
• 森羅万象変遷常無し
  The universe is in a state of flux.