英和和英

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名詞

1

A rope

用例

• 縄をなう
  to twist a rope―make a rope

• 縄を張る
  to stretch a rope―rope off a place
• 包みに縄をかける
  to rope a bale
• 縄を引く
  to pull the rope
• 縄をかけて引張る
  to pull at the rope
• この縄は持たぬ
  The rope will not hold.
• 太い縄、小い縄
  a large rope―a small rope
• 禍福は糾｛あざなえ｝る縄の如し
  Life is a bundle of good and evil.

2

（＝縄目）bonds

用例

• 縄をかける
  to put a prisoner in bonds―bind a criminal

• 縄にかける
  to be bound―be put in bonds
• 神妙に縄にかかれ
  Suffer yourself to be bound!
• 犯人はしかたがないと諦めたと見えて神妙にお縄を頂戴した
  He seemed to accept the situation, and suffered himself to be bound.
• 縄を切る
  to burst one's bonds
• 縄を脱ける
  to slip one's bonds
• 彼は縄を脱けようとしてもがいた
  He struggled to free himself from his bonds.
• 縄を解く
  to unbind a prisoner―release a prisoner―set a prisoner at liberty
• ひと筋縄でないかぬ奴だ
  He is too old a bird to be caught with chaff.

3

（＝絞罪の縄）a halter; a rope

用例

• そんなことをすると頸に縄がかかるぞ
  If you do such a thing, you will get a rope round your neck―you will be hanged.

• 親父の頸に縄をかける奴だ
  He will involve his own father in disgrace.