英和和英

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他動詞

1

（＝投げ捨てる）to throw away; to cast away; to fling away

用例

• 芥を捨てる
  to dump refuse

• 塵芥を捨てるべからず
  No refuse here.
• そんな金は溝（とぶ）へ捨てたも同然だ
  The money is as good as thrown away
  It is a sheer waste of money.
• 秋の扇と捨てられる
  to be thrown away like an old hat
• 着物を捨てる（かなぐり捨てる）
  to cast off a coat―lay aside a coat

2

（＝見捨てる） to abandon （a girl）; to desert （one's wife）; to forsake （a friend）; to discard （a mistress）; to give up （an ally）; to give over, throw over （a lover）; to turn one's back upon （an unfortunate person, etc.）

用例

• 女を捨てる
  to abandon a girl―give over a sweetheart―discard a mistress

• 女が男に捨てられた
  She was given over―thrown over―by her lover.
• （女が）男を捨てる
  to throw over a lover―jilt a lover （for another）
• 妻が夫に捨てられた
  She was deserted by her husband.
• 子を捨てる
  to desert a child―expose a child―abandon a child
• 彼は世に捨てられた
  He was cast out of society
  Society east him forth.
• 彼は困っている友人を捨てるような人じゃない
  He is not the man to desert―forsake―turn his back upon―a friend in need.
• 窮境に在る友を捨てる
  to leave a man in the lurch
• 船を捨てる（乗り捨てる）
  to abandon a ship to her fate―leave a ship to her fate
• （航海中）人を孤島に捨てる
  to maroon a man on a desert island
• 持ち場を捨てる、職を捨てる（卑怯を働く）
  to desert one's post―desert one's trust―give up one's ship
• 職を捨てるな
  Do not give up your ship!
• 神に捨てられる
  to be reprobated （by God）
• あれは神に捨てられた人だ
  He is a reprobate.
• 捨てる神は有れば助ける神が有る
  “The angel goes out that the archangel may come in.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 彼だってそう捨てたものでない
  He is not so hopeless as you think
  He may prove of some service
  He must be good for something.
• 僕だってそう捨てたものじゃありませんよ
  I am good for something.
• 捨て難い男だ
  There is some good in him
  There is something in him.
• 捨て難い風情の有る女だ
  There is a certain charm about her.
• まんざら捨てたものでもない
  He is not without his good point
  It is not without its good point.

3

（＝放棄する） to abandon, give up （an attempt）; to renounce, abjure （one's faith）; to renounce, relinquish, disclaim, waive （a right）; to relinquish, resign, forego （a claim）; to resign, deliver up （one's possessions）; to throw up, fling up （one's office）; to sacrifice, lay down （one's life）; to lay aside （some work）; to part with （conceit, etc.）

用例

• 世を棄てる
  to renounce the world―die to the world

• 僕は世を棄てている
  I am dead to the world.
• 彼は世を棄てて一生を慈善事業に委ねた
  He renounced the world, and devoted his life to works of charity.
• 身を棄てる
  to sacrifice one's life―risk one's life
• 身を棄ててこそ浮かぶ瀬もあれ
  “Risk all, and gain all.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 命を棄てる
  to sacrifice one's life―lay down one's life
• 国家の為ならいつでも命を棄てる
  I am ready to lay down my life for my country―give my life for my country.
• あたら命をただ棄てた
  He threw away his precious life in vain.
• 彼女は自分の命を棄てて子どもを助けた
  She saved the child at the price of her our life.
• 良心を棄てて富貴になった
  He grew rich at the cost of a clear conscience.
• 健康を棄てて成功した
  He succeeded at the sacrifice of his health.
• 日本語を棄てて英語を学んだ
  He learned English at the expense of his Japanese.
• 己を棄てる
  to sacrifice oneself―sink oneself―rise above self―die to self
• 己を棄て人の為に尽くす
  to die to oneself and live for others
• 利益を棄てる
  to sacrifice one's interests―sink one's own interests
• 主義の為に利益を棄てる
  to sacrifice one's interests to one's principles
• 主義を棄てる
  to abandon one's principles―desert one's colours
• 僕は主義を棄てぬ
  I will adhere to my principles―stick to my colours.
• 権利を棄てる
  to renounce a right―disclaim a right―waive a right―relinquish a right―（権利の主張なら）―relinquish a claim―resign a claim―forego a claim
• 地位を棄てる
  to throw up one's office―fling up one's situation
• 宗教を棄てる
  to renounce one's faith―abjure one's faith
• 事を棄てる（断念する）
  to abandon the attempt―give up the attempt―（in despair）
• 剣を棄てて筆を取る（兵家の事を棄てて筆取る身となる）
  to give up the sword for the pen
• 本を棄てて銃を取る
  The book is laid aside for the gun.
• 日本は在来の文明を棄てて泰西の文物制度を取った
  Japan laid aside her old civilization for Western culture and institutions.
• 事業は一年間も棄ててある
  The work has been laid aside for a year.
• 王位を棄てる
  to abdicate the throne
• 棄てるべきものは弓矢なりけり
  I would fain give up the sword.
• 学者のまず第一に為すべきことは慢心を棄てることである
  The first business of the philosopher is to part with conceit.

4

（＝棄却する） to leave （anything）; to reject （an article）; to condemn （an article）; to discard （a habit, etc.）

用例

• 取るか捨てるか
  to take or leave anything

• 長を取り短を捨てる
  to take what is good and leave what is bad
• 身の習慣を棄てる
  to discard a habit―give up a habit
• 人情を棄てる（心を鬼にする）
  to divest oneself of humanity
• 捨てられた品
  rejected articles―condemned goods