英和和英

読み方 がく

名詞

Music

• 楽を奏す
  to perform music

読み方 らく

名詞

（苦の無い楽）ease; comfort:（苦に対する楽）pleasure:（苦の無くなった楽）relief:（=な） easy; comfortable:（=に） comfortably; in comfort:（なに不自由無く）at one's ease

用例

• 楽に暮らす
  to live in comfort―（は衣食の不自由無きこと、不如意なこと無くの意味なら）―live at one's ease

• 独身なら月百円で楽に暮らせる
  A bachelor can live in comfort on 100 yen a month.
• 彼は楽に暮らしている
  He is in easy circumstances―in comfortable circumstances.
• 楽をする
  to take one's ease―live at one's ease―live a life of ease
• 彼は隠居をして楽をしている
  He has retired from active life, and lives at his case.
• 彼は試験を済まして楽をしている
  He is taking his case after his examination.
• 老いて楽をする
  to have an age of ease
• 若い時に働けば老いて楽をする
  A youth of industry gives one an age of ease.
• 両親は年をとっているから楽をさせてやりたい
  As my parents are advanced in years, I wish to make them comfortable―lead them an easy life of it.
• 死際を楽にしてやりたい
  I wish to ease their declining years―smoothe their paths to the grave.
• どうぞお楽に願います
  Please make yourself comfortable!―make yourself at home!
• この薬を召上がると楽になります
  This medicine will relieve you of pain―give you relief.
• あのお薬を戴いてたいそう楽になりました
  The medicine has given me much relief―greatly relieved me （of my pain）.
• いまにこの子が大きくなると私は楽な身になります
  The boy will grow up to make me a man of ease―to be the staff of my declining years.
• 彼は職を辞して楽な身になった
  He has resigned his post, and is now a man of ease―a man of leisure.
• 軍備制限が実施になったら人民の負担が楽になる
  If the armament-limitation goes into operation, the people's burden will ease off.
• 楽あれば苦あり、楽は苦の種、苦は楽の種
  No pleasure without pain
  Pleasure is bought at the price of pain.
• なにもせずに遊んでいるのは楽なように見えてかえって苦しいものだ
  To be doing nothing is not a pleasure, as it seems to be, but a positive pain.

形容詞相当語句

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（＝容易な）easy （task）; light （work）:（=に） easily; with ease

用例

• 楽な仕事
  an easy task
  a soft job

• 楽な仕事はあるものじゃない
  It is hard to find a soft job.
• 人数が多ければ仕事は楽
  “Many hands make light work.”【イディオム・格言的】
• この仕事はなかなか楽じゃない
  It is no easy task.
• この役はなかなか楽じゃない
  It is no sinecure.
• はたで見るほど楽じゃない
  It is not so easy as it seems.
• 仕事がだんだん楽になる
  My work is getting easy to me
  I am getting used to my work.
• 試験は存外楽だった
  The examination was easier than I had expected.
• 英語を楽に話してみたい
  I wish I could speak English with case―with fluency.
• 彼は楽に英語を話す
  He speaks English with ease
  He is a ready speaker of English.
• 楽に英文を書く
  He writes English with ease
  He is a ready writer of English.
• 楽に儲ける
  to make an easy gain
• 楽に成功する
  to succeed with ease―make an easy success of it
• 楽な旅をする
  to travel by easy stages
• そこから東京へ楽に往復ができる
  The place is within easy distance of Tokyo.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 書くのは楽だ
  Writing comes natural to me.

• 学校の課業が楽になった
  I have my lessons well in hand.
• 教授法が好いと生徒が楽だ
  If the teacher teaches with tact, the students learn without effort.
• この教科書を使うと先生が楽だ
  The book saves the teacher much trouble.
• この難関を切り抜けると後は楽だ
  Once over this barrier, we shall be in smooth water.
• 僕は若い時は一日に十五里くらいは楽に歩いた
  When I was young, I made nothing of doing my fifteen ri a day.
• 彼は日に十時間くらい楽に働く
  He makes nothing of working ten hours a day.
• 彼はビール一ダースくらいは楽に平げる
  He will make short work of a dozen bottles of beer.
• 彼は競走に楽に勝った
  He won the race hands down―won at a canter―walked over his course.