英和和英

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名詞

1

An arrow; a shaft; a bolt

用例

• 弓矢
  bow and arrow

• 矢を射る
  to shoot an arrow
• 矢を放つ
  to discharge an arrow―let fly an arrow
• 矢の雨を放つ
  to let fly a shower of arrows
• 敵無きに矢を放つ
  to fight windmills
• 質問の矢を放つ
  to let fly a shower of interpellations
• 矢をつがえる
  to fit an arrow to the string
• 矢を矧｛は｝ぐ
  to feather an arrow
• 猪を立てて矢を矧ぐ
  “After death the doctor.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 矢が立つ
  An arrow pierces anything
  An arrow quivers in anything.
• 一念込めて放った矢が石に立った例しもある
  An arrow discharged with a concentration of mind has been known to pierce a stone.
• 向かう笑顔に矢立たず
  A smile will disarm anger.
• （誰に）白羽の矢が立つ
  The choice falls on some one.
• 矢にあたって死ぬ
  to be killed by an arrow
• 一条の矢は折るべし十条の矢は折り難し
  “Union is strength.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 矢でも鉄砲でも持って来い
  I defy you.
• 先方は矢でも鉄砲でも持って来いという勢いだ
  The other party bids defiance to us―hurls defiance at us.
• 光陰矢の如し
  Time flies
  Swift is the flight of time.
• 野心矢の如し
  He is consumed with ambition.
• 帰心矢の如し
  I feel an irresistible longing for home.
• 矢の催促
  an urgent demand
• 先では矢の催促だ
  We are hourly pressed for it.
• 矢も楯も堪まらない
  to feel an irresistible impulse to do something
• 彼は行きたくて矢も楯も堪まらないのだ
  He is seized with an irresistible impulse to go
  He is impatient to be gone.
• やってみたくて矢も楯も堪まらないのだ
  He is seized with a sudden impulse to try
  He is mad to try
  He is wild to try.
• 二人は矢も楯も堪まらないほど会いたがっている
  They are dying to see each other.
• 矢も楯も堪らないほどいやになった
  I feel an irresistible dislike.
• へろへろ矢
  a wobbling shaft
• 矢の根
  an arrow-head
• 矢筒
  a quiver

2

（＝楔）a wedge

• 矢を入れる
  to drive in a wedge

3

（＝車輪の輻）a spoke （of a wheel）