英和和英

読み方 きゅうする

自動詞

1

（＝困窮する、貧窮する）to be destitute; to be in want; to be in need; to be in distress; to be badly off; to be in straitened circumstances; to be reduced to poverty; to be pressed （for something）; to be pinched （for something）; to be straitened （for something）; to be hard up （for money）

用例

• あの男はいつも窮している
  He is always destitute―always impecunious―always in want.

• あの家は窮しているからそんなぜいたくはできまい
  The family can't afford such extravagance, for they are in straitened circumstances―badly off.
• 人は窮すると乞食根性が出る
  When a man is reduced to poverty, the beggar comes out.
• 人は窮すると悪いことをする
  Poverty will drive a man to crime.
• 僕は金に窮している
  I am pressed for money―hard up （for money）.
• 彼らは食物に窮している
  They are pinched for food.
• 衣食に窮している
  They are straitened for means of livelihood.

2

（＝何に苦しむ、困却する）to be at a loss （for something）; to be perplexed; to be puzzled; to be reduced to extremity; to be driven to one's wits' end; to be put to one's shifts; to be put to one's trumps

用例

• 不意を打たれて返答に窮した
  Taken by surprise, I was at a loss for an answer.

• 彼は言葉に窮するようなことが無い
  He is never at a loss for a word.
• 僕は処置に窮した
  I am at a loss how to act
  I am perplexed
  I don't know what to do.
• 彼女は子どもの処置に窮している
  She is at a loss what to do with the child.
• 策に窮した
  I am at the end of my resources―at the end of the tether―at my wits' end.
• 問題の解決に窮した
  I am at a loss for a solution of the problem―perplexed how to solve the problem.
• 今度という今度はいよいよ窮した
  I am reduced to the last extremity―driven to my wits' end―put to my shifts―put to my trumps.
• 人は窮するとどんな窮策でも用いる
  A man, when reduced to extremity, will catch at any straw
  Necessity will make a man do anything.
• 窮すれば通ず【イディオム・格言的】
  “When things are at the worst, they will mend”
  “Man's necessity is God's opportunity.”