英和和英

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他動詞

1

（＝蔽い被ぶさる）to cover; to overspread; to hang over （a scene）; to brood over （a scene）

用例

• 黒雲天を蔽う
  Black clouds cover the sky
  The sky is covered with black clouds.

• 頂上は雪に蔽わる
  The summit is covered with snow.
• 野は花に蔽わる
  The field is overspread with flowers―decked with flowers.
• 彼女は手巾をもって顔を蔽うた
  She covered her face with her handkerchief―（と言うよりも普通は）―buried her face in her handkerchief.
• 静粛の気全都を蔽う
  Silence hangs over―broods over―the whole city.
• 神霊深みを覆う
  “The spirit of God brooded over the deep.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 革命の暗雲露独の天を蔽う
  Dark clouds of revolution hung over Russia and Germany.
• 硝煙戦場を蔽う
  A canopy of sulphurous smoke floated over the battlefield.
• 一言もってこれを蔽う
  The matter lies in a nutshell.
• 棺を蔽うて事定まる
  “Call no man happy before he is dead.”【イディオム・格言的】

2

（＝掩い隠す）to veil; to conceal; to hide; to disguise

用例

• （西洋婦人の様に）面部を掩う
  to veil oneself

• 彼女は面部を掩うている
  She is veiled.
• 大和民族の起原は隠密に掩わる
  The origin of the Yamato race is veiled in mystery.
• 人の短所を掩う
  to draw a veil over another's faults
• 己が非を掩う
  to conceal one's faults
• 事実掩うべからず
  The fact is not to be disguised
  The fact stares us in the face.
• 掩うべからさる事実だ
  It is a patent fact.
• 人間の運命は秘密に掩わる
  A mystery hangs over man's destiny.

3

（＝覆い包む）to wrap; to envelop; to shroud

用例

• 大和民族の起原は隠密に覆わる
  The origin of the Yamato race in wrapped in mystery―enveloped in mystery―shrouded in mystery.

• 全市暗黒に覆わる
  The whole city was wrapped in darkness.
• 頂上は霧に覆われている
  The peak is enveloped in mist.
• 山々は緑葉に覆わる
  The hills are clad in verdure.
• 人の目を覆う
  to blindfold one
• 自分の耳を覆う
  to stop one's ears―place one's hands over one's ears
• 耳を覆うて鈴を盗む
  “The cat shuts her eyes while she steals the cream.”【イディオム・格言的】

4

（＝暗くする） to obscure （the sun）; to shade （a luminous object）

用例

• 太陽が雲に掩われる
  The sun is obscured by a cloud.

• 電灯を掩う
  to shade an electric light
• 木が日を掩う
  Trees keep off the sun.
• 樹木が市街を掩う
  Trees shade the streets.