英和和英

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名詞

1

（＝盲人）a blind man:（集合的に言えば）the blind:（=の） blind

用例

• 世の中は盲千人目明き千人
  There are as many men who can see as who can not
  The discerning and the undiscerning divide the world.

• 盲になる
  to go blind―lose one's eyesight
• 彼は眼病で盲になった
  An eye-disease made him blind―left him blind―lost him his sight.
• 盲蛇に怖じず
  “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”【イディオム・格言的】
  “Ignorance is the mother of impudence”【イディオム・格言的】
  Ignorance is bold.
• 盲の垣覗きだ
  It is all Greek to me.
• 盲の盲手引き
  the blind leading the blind
• 盲に道を教わる
  to get a blind man to show the way
• 盲の杖
  the blind man's eyes
• 盲が杖を無くなしたよう
  He is “a sheep without a shepherd.”

2

（＝明き盲）an illiterate person:（=の） illiterate; unlettered

読み方 めしい

名詞

A blind man

読み方 もう

名詞

Blindness:（形容詞に用いれば）blind