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名詞

1

A flower:（木の花）a blossom:（草木ともに）a bloom

用例

• 花が咲く
  A flower opens or blooms
  A tree blossoms
  A plant flowers or comes into flower
  A rose blows.

• 花が咲いた
  The flowers are out
  The blossoms are out.
• 煎豆に花が咲く
  You might as well expect parched beans to flower.
• 女やもめに花が咲く
  A widow will arouse interest.
• また花の咲く時もあろう
  I may again be at the top of Fortune's wheel.
• 話に花が咲く
  The talk becomes animated.
• 花を咲かせる
  to make a flower bloom―make a tree blossom―（評判を上げるの意味なら）―make a noise―create a sensation
• 枯木に花を咲かせる
  to make a dead tree blossom
• 花を咲かせたこともある
  I have made a noise in my time.
• けんかに花を咲かせた
  The quarrel created a sensation at the time.
• ひと花咲かせようと思う
  I mean to make a noise in the world.
• 花は半開
  Flowers are best when half open.
• 花は半開、酒はほろ酔い
  Moderation is the soul of enjoyment.
• 花が盛りだ
  The flowers are in bloom
  The trees are in blossom
  The plants are in flower.
• 花は真盛り
  The flowers are in full bloom
  The trees are in full blossom
  The plants are in full flower
  The roses are full-blown.
• 時に逢わば散るも
  Scatter to the mountain gale
• 　目出度し山桜
  When please the powers above!
• 　愛づるは花の
  For not alone in blossom full
• 　盛りのみかは
  Do I thee, Cherry, love.
• 花が散る
  Flowers fall
  Blossoms fall.
• 花が散った
  The flowers are over
  The blossoms are over.
• あたら盛りの花を散らす
  She was cut off in the flower of her youth.
• あたら蕾の花を散らした
  She was cut off in the bud of womanhood.
• あたら花を野で暮らす
  She wastes her sweetness on the desert air.
• 花笑い鳥歌う
  Flowers smile and birds sing.
• 花がしぼむ
  A flower fades
  A flower withers.
• 花がしおれる
  A flower droops.
• （朝顔などの）花が化ける
  A flower varies
  A flower sports.
• 花を作る
  to raise flowers―cultivate flowers
• 花を生ける
  to put flowers in a vase―arrange flowers
• 床の間に花が生けてある
  In the alcove stands a vase of flowers.
• 花を摘む
  to pick flowers―gather flowers
• 花を手折る（両意義において）
  to pluck a flower
• 花に水をやる
  to water the flowers
• ひと枝の花
  a sprig of blossoms
  a spray of blossoms
• 時ならぬ花
  a flower out of season
• 手の届く花は無い
  There are no flowers within my reach.
• 花はあれども手が届かぬ
  The flowers are out of my reach.
• 花はあれども及びが無い
  The flowers are beyond my reach.
• かんばせ花の如し
  She is as fair as a flower.
• 花のかんばせ月の眉
  a blooming face and crescent brows
• 窈窕｛ようちょう｝花の如し
  She is as graceful as a flower.
• 花とも玉とも光る美人
  a radiant beauty
• 花にたわむれる蝶
  a butterfly fluttering from flower to flower
• 蝶よ花よと育てた娘
  She was brought up with the tenderest care 【イディオム・格言的には：】“kept as the apple of their eye.”
• 花多ければ実少し
  Good flowers are poor fruiters
  Elegance and utility do not go together.
• 花も実もある
  to be both interesting and instructive―both elegant and useful―to unite elegance with utility
• 隣の花は赤い
  “Variety is the mother of enjoyment,”【イディオム・格言的】
• 錦上花を添える
  to adorn perfection itself
• （葬式に）花を贈る
  to present a floral tribute

2

（＝桜花）the cherry-blossom

用例

• 花が咲いた
  The cherry-trees are in blossom
  The cherry-blossoms are out.

• 花は真盛り
  The cherry-trees are in full blossom
  We are in the height of the cherry season.
• 花のトンネルをくぐる
  to pass through an avenue of cherry-blossoms
• 花は見頃だ
  The cherry-blossoms are at their best.
• 花吹いて風雨多し
  When the cherry-blossoms are out, so are the storms.
• 花には嵐
  “Roses have thorns.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 花は桜木、人は武士
  The cherry among flowers, the samurai among men.
• 月下花を賞す
  to view the cherry-blossoms bathed in moonlight
• 花が散る
  The blossoms fall
  The blossoms laugh.
• 花がちらちら散る
  Flower-petals flit in the wind.
• もう花は散ったろう
  The blossoms must be over.
• 咲いた桜に
  Why tie thy steed
• 　何故駒繋ぐ
  To a blossoming cherry-tree?
• 　駒が勇めば
  The horse will prance,
• 　花が散る
  The blossoms scattered be.
• 花より団子
  Pudding rather than fame.

3

〈転意〉

用例

• 物いう花
  a living flower

• 社交界の花
  a society belle
• 鄙の花
  the pride of the village
• 手生けの花
  a kept mistress
• 手生けの花にする
  to have her to oneself―call her one's own
• 他に増す花ができたらしい
  There is somebody in the wind
  Somebody is standing in my shoes.
• 売物に花を飾る
  “No man cries stinking fish.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 花を持たせる
  to yield the palm to the leading actor
• 花の都
  the metropolis

4

（＝粋）the essence, the flower （of anything）

用例

• 武士道は日本の花
  Bushido is the flower of Japan.

• 一座の花だ
  He is the life of the party―the life and soul of the party.
• 器量は当座の花
  “Beauty is a fragile good.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 若いうちが花だ
  Youth is the flower of life.
• 世帯の苦労を知らないうちが花だ
  Life is happy when one is still free from household cares.
• 彼はあの頃は花だった
  He was at his best then.
• 言わぬが花
  Better leave it unsaid
  “The least said, the soonest mended”【イディオム・格言的】
  “Silence is golden.”【イディオム・格言的】

5

（＝生花）flower-arrangement

• 茶や花を習う
  to take lessons in tea-ceremony and flower-arrangement

6

（＝花札）the flower-cards （the Japanese playing-cards）

用例

• 花を引く
  to play （at） cards

• 花を引いている
  They are at cards.
• 花を引いて夜を明かすことがある
  They sometimes play the night away.
• あの人は花が上手だ
  He is a good card-player.

7

（＝祝儀）a gratuity; a tip

用例

• 女中に花をやる
  to tip a girl

• 俳優に花をやる
  to make a present of money to an actor

8

• 湯の花
  hot-spring incrustations