英和和英

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名詞

1

（＝思想、感情、心）thought; feeling; emotion; heart; mind

用例

• 我が子を棄てる親の思いはどんなだろう
  What must be the feelings of the parent who deserts his or her child?

• 彼は思いに沈んでいた
  He was sunk in thoughts.
• 思い内にあれば色外に現る
  One will betray one's feelings.
• 思いのたけを述べる
  to open one's heart―lay bare one's mind
• 思いをこらす
  to rack one's brains―cudgel one's brains―tax one's ingenuity
• 蘇生の思いをした
  I felt myself another man―felt myself a new man.
• 夏の暑い日に夕立が来ると蘇生の思いをする
  A shower revives us on a hot summer day.

2

（＝願望、希望、意志）desire; wish; hope; expectation; will; pleasure

用例

• 思いがかなう
  One's wishes are fulfilled
  One realizes one's wishes
  One has one's wish.

• 思いがかなってこんな嬉しいことはない
  How glad I am to have my wishes fulfilled!
• 思いが届く
  to attain one's desire―gain the object of one's wishes
• 思いを遂げる
  to have one's will of a woman
• 彼はとうとう思いを遂げた
  At last he had his will of her.
• 去るもとどまるも君の思いのままだ
  You may go or stay at your pleasure―as you please.
• 生徒は教師の思いのままになる
  The student is wax in the hands of the teacher.
• 思いが残る
  to have a lingering desire for the past―regret the past
• 思いの岸に着く
  to reach the goal of one's wishes
• 思いのほか
  beyond expectation―beyond one's expectations
• 結果は思いのほか好い
  The result is beyond my expectations.
• 思いのほか悪い
  It does not come up to my expectations.
• 思い半ばに過ぎん
  It may be imagined.
• この事実より見ても氏の節倹は思い半ばに過ぎん
  From this fact alone, his frugality may be imagined.

3

（＝愛情、恋愛）love; affection

用例

• 思いを寄せる、思いを掛ける
  （男が女になら）to fall in love with a woman―lose one's heart to a girl―take a fancy to a girl―be enamoured of a woman―（女が男になら）―fix her affections on a man.

• 思いを焦がす
  to pine for―languish for―sigh for―any one
• 思いを遂げる
  （男なら）to have one's will of a woman―（女なら）―succeed in love.
• 思いを遂げないのは女の恥
  It is a point of honour with a woman to succeed in love.
• 女の思いが男の心に届かない
  Her love finds no response in his heart.
• あの子はお母さん思いだ
  She has an affection for her mother.
• 思い内に有れば色外に現る
  “Love can not be hidden.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 犬の思いで孕んだ
  The dog's love got her with child.

4

（＝経験）experience

用例

• 面白い思いをした
  It was a delightful experience
  I had a good time.

• 辛い思いをした
  I had a trying experience
  I had a bitter experience
  I had a hard time of it.
• あんな思いをすると寿命を縮める
  Such an experience would shorten one's natural term of existence.
• こんなお思いをするなら死んだ方がましだ
  I would rather die than suffer such misery.
• 断腸の思いをする、血を吐く思いをする
  to break one's heart―have one's heart broken
• 身も世もあられぬ思いをした
  I was in agony.
• 生き身を切られるような思いをした
  I was cut to the quick
  It was more than flesh and blood could bear.
• やっとの思いで成功した
  I accomplished my purpose with difficulty.

5

（＝執念）a vengeful spirit; an avenging spirit; furies

用例

• 人の思いに取りつかれる
  to be haunted by one's furies

• 君が病気するのは誰かの思いだろう
  It must be some one's furies that make you ill.
• 君のような色男の苦労するのは女の思いだ
  It is woman's furies that persecute such a lady's man.