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自動詞

1

（＝訂正される）to be corrected; to be rectified

用例

• 間違いが直った
  The mistakes are corrected
  The errors are rectified.

• この本の誤りが直りました
  The book is rid of mistakes―free from errors―now.

2

（＝矯正される）to be reformed; to be cured:（人を主格とすれば） to be cured of （a habit）; to cure oneself of （a habit）; to break oneself of （a habit）; to get rid of （a habit）; to get over （a habit）; to grow out of （a folly）; to mend （one's ways）; to amend

用例

• 酒飲みが直る
  A drunkard is reformed.

• 彼は素行が直った
  He has mended his ways―amended.
• 癖が直る
  A habit is cured
  One is cured of a habit.
• あの少年は手癖が直った
  The boy is cured of the habit of stealing.
• どもる癖は直る
  Stammering can be cured
  One can be cured of the habit of stammering.
• 僕はどうしても朝寝の癖が直らない
  I can not get over―get rid of―cure myself of―break myself of―the habit of late-rising.
• 若い時の道楽は年をとると直る
  One will grow out of one's youthful follies
  The follies of youth will wear off with age.
• 彼はいくら叩いても間違った量見が直らぬ
  I can not beat the notion out of his head.

3

（＝修繕される）to be mended; to be repaired

用例

• この時計は直らない
  The watch can not be mended.

• とても直らない
  It is past repair.
• 時計がすっかり直った
  My watch is all right now.

4

（＝復旧する）to be restored; to mend

用例

• 天気が直った
  Fair weather is restored.

• 不景気もどん底に達すると直る
  When things are at their worst, they will mend.
• 二人は仲が直った
  They are reconciled with each other
  They have made up with each other.
• 市況はだんだん直る
  The market is improving.
• 運が直る
  Fortune's wheel turns round.
• 傾いた船が直る
  A ship rights herself.
• 今にご機嫌が直る
  He will soon come round.

5

（＝変わる）to change

• 持って生まれた性質は直らぬ
  One can not change one's nature
  “The leopard can not change his spots”【イディオム・格言的】

6

用例

• 本妻に直る
  to become a legal wife―be made an honest woman of

• 本妻に直って澄ましている
  She is installed as a legal wife.
• 細君の妹が後妻に直った
  Her younger sister became his second wife.