英和和英

読み方 ぐるしい

接尾詞

用例

• この室は息苦しい
  This room is close.

• 見苦しい
  （家なら）an unsightly building―（行動なら）―unbecoming conduct―（挙動なら）―unseemly behaviour
• 君がそんなことをしては見苦しい
  It would be unbecoming in you to do such a thing.
• 君がそんなことを言っては聞き苦しい
  It sounds strange from your lips.
• 今晩は寝苦しい晩だ
  I can not sleep tonight.
• 昨晩は寝苦しかった
  I tossed about in bed all last-night
  I have passed a bad night.
• いつまでもご厄介になっているのは心苦しい
  It goes against my conscience to impose upon your hospitality for ever.

読み方 くるしい

形容詞相当語句

Painful （disease）; afflicting （circumstance）; distressing （poverty）; trying （experience）; agonizing （feeling）; oppressive （heat）; narrow, straitened （circumstances）; embarrassed （finances）; awkward, delicate （position）; hard （labour）; difficult （breathing）; forced （laugh）; laboured （style）; strained （explanation）; far-fetched （argument, etc.）

用例

• ああ苦しい、苦しくてたまらぬ
  I am in agony
  It is trying
  I can't stand it.

• 彼は苦しそうにうなっていた
  He was groaning as if in pain―as if in agony.
• 生活が苦しい
  Life is hard
  Life is difficult.
• 暑さが苦しい
  The heat is oppressive.
• 苦しい財政
  embarrassed finances―financial embarrassment
• 彼は財政（生計）が苦しい
  He is in straitened circumstances.
• 僕は苦しい立場だ
  I am in an awkward situation.
• 君にそうされると僕は苦しい立場になる
  You place me in a delicate position.
• 僕は借金で苦しい
  I am embarrassed by debts.
• 貧乏で苦しい
  I am distressed by poverty.
• およそ世の中に貧乏ぐらい苦しいものは無い
  Nothing in the world can be more distressing than poverty.
• 重税が苦しい
  I am oppressed by heavy taxation
  The taxes bear hard on me.
• 彼は見えを張っているけれども内実はずいぶん苦しいのだ
  Though he makes a brave show, he is really in straits―in great straits.
• 胸が苦しい
  I fell oppressed in the chest.
• 病人は息が苦しそうだ
  The invalid seems to breathe with difficulty.
• 仕事が苦しい
  The work is hard
  I feel the strain on my powers.
• 仕事が苦しくてたまらない
  The strain is intolerable
  I can't stand the strain.
• 彼らは仕事が苦しい苦しいと言っている
  They complain of the strain.
• 苦しい思いをした、苦しい目に逢った
  I had a trying experience
  I had a hard time of it.
• 居ても立っても居られないような苦しい思いをした
  I was in agony
  My soul was wrung with agony.
• 僕は苦しい境遇に立っている
  I am in a trying situation―in extremity―reduced to extremity.
• 苦しい時の神頼み
  “One will pray to the gods in extremity.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 苦しい時は身一つ
  “Everybody for himself, and God for us all.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 僕は苦しい羽目に陥っている
  I am in a tight place―in a tight box―in a cleft stick―in a fix.
• 腹が苦しい
  I am full―as tight as a drum.
• 苦しい言い訳だ
  It is a forced excuse―a lame excuse.
• 苦しい洒落だ
  It is a strained joke―a far-fetched pun.
• 苦しい説明だ
  It is a strained explanation―a forced explanation―a far-fetched explanation.
• 苦しい文章だ
  It is a laboured style.
• 苦しいからひと思いに殺しておくれ
  Put me out of misery!
  Release me from my miseries!
• 彼は苦しくなると何とかかとかごまかして言い抜ける
  When he finds himself in hot water, he will dodge and shuffle out of the difficulty.
• 英語が苦しくなると日本語を出す
  When he can not express himself in English, he will fall back upon his Japanese