英和和英

読み方 うく

自動詞

1

（＝水に浮く）to float; to swim; to rise to the surface; to come up to the surface

用例

• 水に浮く
  to float on the water

• 水より軽い物は浮く
  Anything lighter than water floats on it.
• 木の葉は浮く
  Leaves float on the water.
• 木の葉のように浮く
  He swims like a cork.
• うっちゃっておけば浮く者は浮く沈む者は沈む
  Leave a man to sink or swim!
• 男の土左衛門は仰向きに浮く
  A drowned man will float on his back.
• 女の土左衛門は俯向きに浮く
  A drowned woman will float on her face.
• 泳ぐのはさておいてただ浮いていたというばかりさ
  Swimming apart, I barely kept myself above water.

2

用例

• 歯が浮く
  One's teeth are set on edge.

• 梅の実を見たばかりで歯が浮く
  The mere sight of green plums sets my teeth on edge.
• 鉄と石と擦り合わせると歯の浮くような音がする
  Iron grates against stone―grides on stone.
• 歯の浮くような音
  a grating sound
  a strident sound
  a gride
• あの人は歯の浮くような英語を使う
  He speaks intolerable English―insufferable English.

3

用例

• 気が浮く
  to be gay―light-hearted―buoyant―exhilarated―enlivened―cheered―in high spirits

• 酒を飲むと気が浮く
  Wine exhilarates.
• 桜が咲くと人の心が浮く
  The cherry-blossoms enliven the people.
• 春は心が浮く
  The heart is buoyant in spring.
• 音楽を聞くと沈んだ心も浮く
  Music cheers a depressed heart.
• お祭りで若い者は気が浮いている
  The festival has made the young people gay.
• 休暇が近づいたので皆気が浮いている
  The holidays being at hand, they have a light heart―they are light-hearted―they are in high spirits.
• 彼は浮くかと思えば沈み、沈むかと思えば浮く（変転自在だ）
  He passes from gay to grave, from grave to gay.

4

用例

• 気が浮かぬ
  to be depressed in spirits―in low spirits―gloomy―melancholy

• 君は浮かぬ顔をしている
  You have a gloomy look―a glum face―a melancholy countenance―a grave look.
• 浮かぬ様子だ
  He has a gloomy air―a melancholy air―a sad air―a pensive air.

5

そんな浮いた話じゃない→『ういた（浮いた）』

6

用例

• 金が浮く
  Money is left over.

• そうすれば十円浮く
  Thus you will save ten yen.