英和和英

読み方 ふく

名詞

A hanging scroll

読み方 はば

名詞

1

Breadth; width

用例

• 幅はどれだけあるか
  How broad is it?
  How wide is it?
  What is the width?
  What is the breadth?

• 畳は長さ六尺幅三尺
  A mat is six feet long and three feet wide
  A mat measures six feet in length and three feet in width
  A mat has a length of six feet and a width of three feet.
• この船は長さ六フィート幅八十フィートある
  The ship has a length of 600 feet and 80 feet beam.
• 幅が広い
  It is wide―broad.
• 幅が狭い
  It is narrow.
• 町の幅を広くする
  to make the streets wider―make the streets broader―broaden the streets―widen the streets
• 一幅、二幅
  one breadth―two breadths―of cloth

2

〈転意〉

用例

• 幅のある声
  a full voice

• 幅が利く
  to have influence （over others）
• 幅を利かす
  to lay down the law
• 彼は町内で幅を利かしている
  He lays down the law in the neighbourhood
  He has influence over his neighbours
  He is a person of influence in the neighbourhood
  He is the cock of the walk.
• あの学校の先生だと言えばこの辺ではちょっと幅が利く
  A teacher of that school is somebody in the neighbourhood.
• 当節は役人は幅が利かない
  Officials are now of no consequence―nobodies.
• 大臣もこうなると幅が利かない
  A Cabinet-minister may find himself in a humiliating situation.
• 当節は風邪を引かないと幅が利かないようだ
  Those who do not take cold nowadays dare not show their faces in public.