英和和英

読み方 たえる

自動詞

1

To become extinct; to die out; to run out; to fail; to cease; to end; to come to an end; to be cut off

用例

• 血筋（血統）が絶えた
  The family is extinct
  The family has died out.

• アイヌ人は今に絶える（死に絶える）
  The Ainos are dying out―becoming extinct.
• 種が絶えた
  The seed has run out.
• 水が絶える
  Water fails.
• 交通が絶える
  Communication is cut off
  Traffic is interrupted.
• 供給が絶える
  The supply is cut off.
• 交通が絶えた
  Our correspondence has ceased―come to an end.
• 話が絶える
  The talk dies.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 彼とは久しく音信が絶えている
  I have not heard from him for a long time.

• 望みが絶える
  One's hopes go to the ground.
• もう望みがすっかり絶えた
  My hopes are dashed to the ground
  My hopes are blighted
  My hopes are blasted
  I am in despair.
• 成功の望みが絶えた
  I despair of success.
• 全快の望みが絶えた
  His recovery is despaired of
  There is no hope of his recovery
  He is past hope of recovery
  It is all over with the invalid
  It is all up with the invalid
  He is a gone case.
• 息が絶える
  to expire―breathe one's last
• 行って見ると息が絶えるところであった
  I found him at his last gasp.
• 父が死んで学資の道が絶えた
  My father's death stopped my supply of school-expenses.
• 十時には行人の跡が絶える
  At ten o'clock, the streets are deserted.
• 道に行人の跡が絶えた
  The streets were deserted
  Not a soul was to be seen in the streets.
• この島へ行くと人跡が絶える
  There is no trace of man―no sign of human habitation―in this island.

2

用例

• 絶えぬ
  to be constant―continual―continuous―incessant―perpetual―everlasting

• あの学校は悶着が絶えぬ
  There are constant troubles in that school.
• あの家は波瀾が絶えぬ
  The family is subject to constant troubles.
• 国内騒乱絶えず
  The country is subject to constant disturbances.
• あの先生は生徒ともめ事が絶えぬ
  He has constant troubles with his students.
• 泉岳寺は参詣人が絶えぬ
  The Sengakuji is constantly visited by worshippers.
• 年中苦情が絶えぬ
  There are constant troubles from year's end to year's end.
• 人は苦労が絶えぬ
  Man is subject to constant troubles―never free from trouble.
• 彼の門は車馬の出入りが絶えぬ
  His door is constantly besieged by callers.
• 行人の跡が絶えぬ
  The traffic is continuous.
• この町は人通りが絶えぬ
  There is constant traffic―continual traffic―continuous traffic―in this street.
• 世に争いは絶えぬ
  There is incessant strife―everlasting strife―in the world―Man will never cease from strife.
• 二人の間に言い争いが絶えぬ
  There are incessant bickerings―perpetual bickerings―between the two.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 水が絶えぬ
  Water never fails.

• 彼とはまだ文通が絶えぬ
  I still correspond with him.
• 頂上には年中雪が絶えぬ
  There is snow at the summit all the year round.
• 年中心配が絶えぬ
  I am never free from care.
• 身に故障絶えず
  He is always in some trouble or other―（身体の故障なら）―He is never quite well.
• あの人は悪い噂が絶えぬ
  He is always giving rise to some scandal or other.

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絶えず→『たえず（絶えず）』