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自動詞

1

（＝恐縮する）to be filled with awe; to be overwhelmed （with gratitude or shame）

用例

• 宮中にもしそんなことがあっては本大臣はただ恐れ入るのみです
  If such a thing should happen in the Imperial Palace, I should be simply filled with awe―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Such an occurrence at court would strike me with awe.

• ご主人お手ずからのお酌では恐れ入ります
  I am overwhelmed by your condescension―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Your condescension overwhelms me.
• 先生に手伝って戴いては恐れ入ります
  I should be overwhelmed by your assistance―（他動詞構文にすれば）―You would overwhelm me by your assistance―Your assistance would overwhelm me.
• ご案内下さるか、これは恐れ入ります
  Will you show me the way? I am overwhelmed with gratitude―greatly obliged to you.
• あんなに恐れ入ったことは無い
  I was never more overwhelmed with shame―never so put to the blush.

2

（＝恥じ入る、痛み入る）to be humiliated; to be abashed; to be put to shame; to be put to the blush; to feel small

用例

• 外国人に日本語の誤りを注意されて実に恐れ入った
  I was humiliated when I was set right in my Japanese by a foreigner
  A foreigner set me right in my Japanese and made me feel small.

• そうお賞め下さると恐れ入ります
  Your praises put me to shame
  Spare my blushes!
• そうお礼を仰有られてはかえって恐れ入ります
  You put me to the blush by thanking me.
• 指南などとは恐れ入ります
  You put me to the blush by asking me to give you a lesson
  Give you a lesson! Why, you put me to shame.
• 恐れ入って引き下がった
  I withdrew abashed.

3

（＝ありがたく思う）to be grateful （to one for something）; to be thankful （to one for something）; to be obliged to （one）

用例

• 誠に恐れ入り候へども御返金の儀は来月迄御猶予被下度願上候
  I should be greatly obliged to you―consider myself under great obligations to you―if you would wait for my payment till next month.

• お願いをお聴き下さるか、それは恐れ入ります
  If you will grant my request, I shall be greatly obliged to you―esteem it a great favour.
• ご同情は誠に恐れ入ります
  I am grateful for your sympathy―thankful for your sympathy.
• どうも恐れ入ります
  I am very much obliged to you.

4

（＝お気の毒に思う）to regret; to be sorry; to be sorry to give （one） trouble

用例

• お勉強のお邪魔をして恐れ入ります
  I am very sorry to disturb you in your studies.

• 誠に恐れ入りますがこの手紙を英文に訳して下さいませんか
  I am sorry to give you trouble, but will you translate this letter into English?
  May I trouble you to translate this letter into English?
• 恐り入りますがその窓を明けて下さいませんか
  May I trouble you to open that window?
• 恐れ入りますがその本を取って下さい
  I'll trouble you for that book
  I'll thank you for that book.
• お忙しいところお邪魔をして恐れ入ります
  I am sorry to intrude on your precious time.
• 彼は恐れ入って謝った
  He apologized with regret.
• それではあまり恐れ入りますから
  That would be giving you too much trouble.

5

（＝服罪する）to plead guilty; to confess one's guilt; to admit the justice of the accusation; to throw oneself on the mercy of the court; to stand corrected; to give in

用例

• （覚えが有るかと問われて）恐れ入りました
  I throw myself on your mercy.

• 被告は恐れ入りましたと申します
  The prisoner has confessed his guilt
  He pleads guilty.
• 恐れ入りました、仰有る通りです
  Yes. I stand corrected―you are right.
• どうだ恐れ入ったろう
  Are you not obliged to admit the justice of my accusation?
• 彼は証拠を突きつけられてとうとう恐れ入ってしまった
  When he was confronted with proofs, he had at last to give in.
• 重々恐れ入ります
  I beg a thousand pardons.

6

（＝驚く、おかしい）to be surprised; to be astonished; to be amazed; to be tickled

用例

• 君の慧眼には恐れ入った
  I am astonished at your penetration.

• 君の金の借り方のうまいのには恐れ入るよ
  I am surprised at your skill in borrowing money.
• あれで大学教授だというから恐れ入るね
  Just think of his being a university professor!
  He a university professor! The idea!
• あれで英語が得意なんだから恐れ入る
  Just think of his priding himself on his English
  I am tickled at his priding himself on his English.

7

（＝閉口する、かなわない）to be dumfounded; to be confounded; to be nonplussed; to be beaten; to be floored; to be bored; to be too much for （one）

用例

• この問題には恐れ入った
  This problem has floored me―This problem beats me―It beats me all to nothing―（は英、米は）―It beats me all hollow.

• 品は良いとしても価の高いのには恐れ入る
  The quality may be superior, but the price is too much for me.
• あの質問には恐れ入った
  The question was too much for me―It was a poser―a silencer―a staggerer.
• あの人の長演説には恐れ入る
  His long-winded speeches bore me
  I am bored to death by his long speeches.