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名詞

1

Kindness; goodness; a favour; a benefit; an obligation; a debt of gratitude

用例

• あなたにはご恩がある
  I owe you a debt of gratitude
  I lie under obligations to you
  I am obliged to you
  I am indebted to you.

• 恩をこうむる、恩になる
  to receive favours―receive benefits―at one's hands
• あなたにはご恩になりました
  I have received favours at your hands.
• 恩を知る、恩に感ずる
  to be sensible of favours―grateful for favours―thankful for favours
• 彼は恩を知る
  He is sensible of favours
  Kindness is not thrown away upon him.
• 恩を知らぬ、恩に感ぜぬ
  to be insensible of favours―ungrateful for favours
• あの男は恩を知らぬ
  He is insensible of kindness
  Kindness is thrown away upon him
  He is an ingrate.
• 恩を忘れる
  to be ungrateful
• ご恩に感泣す
  I am deeply sensible of your favours.
• 恩を施す
  to do one a favour―bestow favours on one―lay one under obligations
• 恩を返す、恩に報いる
  to repay one's kindness―requite one's favours
• 恩をもって仇に報いる
  to return good for evil―heap coals of fire on one's head
• 恩を仇で返す
  to return evil for good
• このご恩は忘れません
  I shall never forget your kindness
  I shall be eternally grateful to you.
• ご恩は生涯忘れません
  I shall not forget your kindness as long as I live
  I shall be grateful to you the longest day I have to live.
• 恩にきせる（恩きせがましくする）
  to assume a patronizing air―treat one patronizingly
• 彼は少しのことで恩にきせる
  He will come the benefactor over you for a trifle.
• こうして下されば恩にきます
  If you will do so, I shall feel indebted to you―consider myself your debtor.
• 恩にきられてはかえって迷惑だ
  I should be rather annoyed to have you consider yourself my debtor.
• 恩を売る
  to try to gain one's gratitude

2

（＝何の恩）

用例

• 君には再生の恩がある（再生の恩人）
  I owe you my life
  You are the preserver of my life.

• 親の恩、撫育の恩
  one's debt to one's parents―what one owes to one's parents
• 子を持って知る親の恩
  It is not till we come to have children of our own that we know our debt to our parents.
• 生みの恩より育ての恩
  The one brought me up, the other only brought me forth
  The one who brought me up is dearer to me than the one who brought me forth.
• 師の恩
  one's debt to one's teacher―what one owes to one's teacher
• 犬は三日の恩を三年忘れぬ
  Keep a dog for three days, and he will not forget you for three years.