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名詞

A habit （of doing something）; a propensity （to some vice）; a weakness （for some luxury）; a mania （for something particular）

• 彼は読書癖がある
  He has a mania for reading.

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名詞

1

（＝習癖）a habit; a way; a trick

用例

• 寝床で読書するのは悪い癖だ
  Reading in bed is a bad habit.

• あの人は妙な癖がある
  He has a queer way―some queer ways―about him.
• 同じことを二度言う癖がある
  He has a trick of repeating himself.
• 妙な時にしゃれを言う癖がある
  He has a habit of being witty out of season
  He is in the habit of being witty out of season.
• 何でも困ると膝を撫でる癖がある
  He has a way of nursing his knees when he is in perplexity.
• 自慢する癖がある
  He has a habit of boasting
  He has a way of boasting
  He is in the way of boasting
  He is in the habit of boasting
  He is given to boasting.
• 彼は「そりゃーそうさ」と言う癖がある
  He has a way of saying, “There is no doubt about it.”
• それが君ら学生の癖だ
  That is the way with you students.
• この時計は十二時に一つ打つ癖がある
  This clock will strike one at twelve.

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用例

• 悪い癖がつく
  to get into a habit―fall into a habit―contract a habit―acquire a habit

• 善い癖を付ける
  to acquire a habit―cultivate a habit
• この子は嘘をつく癖がついた
  The boy has fallen into a habit of lying.
• 僕は早起きの癖をつけた
  I have cultivated the habit of early rising.
• 悪い癖はつきやすいが善い癖は付きにくい
  Bad habits are easy to contract, but good habits are hard to acquire.
• 成金が女中どもに悪い癖をつけた
  The upstarts have spoiled the servants.
• 女中どもに悪い癖がついている
  The servants are spoiled.

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用例

• 癖になる
  to become a habit―create a precedent

• 下剤を用いると癖になる
  The use of purgative becomes a habit.
• ぜいたくをしつけると癖になる
  Luxury becomes a habit.
• 一遍要求を容れると癖になる
  If you comply with their demands once, it will create a precedent.
• 金をやると癖になる
  If you give him money, you will spoil him
  Money will spoil him.
• 黙っていると癖になるからうんと叱っておやり
  Silence will spoil him. You must give him a sound rating.
• ダバコは好きではないが癖になって飲む
  I do not like tobacco, but I smoke from habit.

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用例

• 癖を直す
  to cure one of a habit―beat one out of a habit

• この子は嘘を言う癖が直らないいくら殴っても直らない
  I can not cure him of the habit of lying―beat him out of the habit of lying.
• 自分の癖を直す
  to break oneself of a habit―get rid of a habit―get over a habit
• 僕はどうしても朝寝の癖が直らぬ
  I can not break myself of the habit of late-rising.
• どもる癖は直る
  One can be cured of the habit of stammering.
• 癖は抜けない
  Habits are hard to get rid of.
• 彼は自慢する癖が抜けない
  He can not get rid of the habit of boasting.
• 悪い癖はつきやすく直り難い
  Bad habits are easy to get into and hard to get rid of.

2

（＝性癖）a natural disposition; a predisposition; a trait of character; a characteristic; a peculiarity; an idiosyncracy; an inclination （for something）; a propensity （to something）; a proclivity （to something）; a bias （towards something）; a turn （for something）; a twist; a mental twist

用例

• 豪傑には癖あり
  A great man will have his peculiarity―his idiosyncracy.

• 持った癖は隠せない
  One's nature will assert itself.
• 癖は往々遺伝する
  A trait of character is often inherited.
• あの人は言葉に癖がある
  He has a peculiarity in speech―a peculiar manner of speaking.
• 針小棒大の癖がある
  He has a propensity to exaggeration―a proclivity to making mountains of mole-hills.
• あの少年は文学に傾く癖がある
  The boy has an inclination for literature―a bias towards literature.
• 今一人の方は実験を好む癖がある
  The other boy has a turn for experiments.
• 癖だらけの人間だ
  He is full of mental twists.

3

（＝弱点、欠点）a foible; a fault

用例

• 誰でも何か得意がる癖がある
  Every man has his foibles.

• 無くて七癖
  Every man has his faults
  No man is without his faults
  No man is free from faults.

4

（＝特徴）a tone:（国語のなら）an idiom; a genius

用例

• 人の癖を取る
  to hit one's tone

• 彼はよく沙翁｛しゃおう＝シェークスピア｝の癖を取った
  He has hit the tone of Shakespeare.
• どこの国語にも癖がある
  Every language has its idioms.
• 英語の癖を取る
  to learn the English idiom―catch the genius of the English language

5

（＝ひと癖）

用例

• ひと癖ありそうな顔
  a sinister face

• ひと癖ありそうな人間だ
  He is a sinister-looking man.
• 癖の有る味、癖の有る匂い
  a pronounced taste―a pronounced smell

6

（＝文芸の癖）mannerism

• あの人の文章には癖がある
  There is a mannerism about his style
  His style is full of mannerism
  He is a mannerist.

7

（＝馬の癖）a vice

用例

• 名馬に癖あり
  A Bucephalus will have his vices.

• 癖のある馬
  a vicious horse

8

（＝髪の癖）a curl

用例

• 癖を直す
  to straighten out curls―rid the hair of curls

• 癖毛
  curly hair

9

（＝何々癖）

用例

• 彼は酒癖が悪い
  He is quarrelsome in his cups
  He will brawl over his cups.

• 手癖が悪い
  He is a kleptomaniac
  He is light-fingered
  His fingers are lime-twigs.

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〈熟語〉

用例

• その癖
  and yet

• 彼は何でも知っているようなことを言っている、そのくせ何も知らない
  He talks as if he knew everything, and yet he knows nothing.
• 彼は普請をするなどと言っている、そのくせ金が無い
  He talks of building himself a new house, and yet he has no money.
• 何々の癖に
  and yet―though―as if―while―when
• 彼は金も無いくせに普請をするなどと言っている
  He has no money, and yet he talks of building himself a new house
  Though he has no money, he talks of building himself a new house
  He talks of building himself a new house when he has no money
  He talks of building himself a new house as if he had plenty of money.
• 何も知らないくせに何でも知っているようなことを言っている
  He knows nothing, and yet he talks as if he knew everything
  He talks as if he knew everything while he knows nothing at all.
• ろくに手紙も欠けないくせにあんな生意気言っている
  He talks such impertinence when he can's write a letter properly.
• 子どものくせにタバコなんか吹かして
  You are smoking tobacco when you are a child―as if you were a man!
• 女のくせに凧を揚げるって
  You fly a kite when you are a girl―as if you were a boy!
• 男のくせに白粉などつけて
  You paint your face when you are a man―as if you were a woman!
• 君は知っているくせに人に尋ねる
  You ask me as if you did not know.
• なんだい知っているくせに
  As if you did not know!
• なんだいなにも知らないくせに
  As if you knew everything!
• なんだい金も無いくせに
  As if you were a rich man!