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名詞

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（昆虫）An insect:（蚯蚓、腸虫など）a worm:（毛虫、青虫）a caterpillar:（蛇、蛙など）a reptile:（しみ）a moth

用例

• 虫が這う
  Insects creep
  Worms crawl.

• 虫の這うように歩く
  to walk at a snail's pace
• 虫が鳴く
  Insects chirp.
• 秋は虫の声を聞く
  In autumn, we hear the chirping of insects.
• 虫がわく
  Worms breed.
• 畑に虫がわいた、畑に虫が付いた
  The garden has bread worms
  There are worms in the garden.
• 米に虫がわいた
  Weevils are eating up the rice.
• 木に虫が付いた
  Worms are eating up the leaves of the tree.
• 稲に虫が付いた
  The rice-plants are suffering from insect-pest.
• あの娘に虫が付いている
  The girl has a lover.
• 箱入り娘に虫が付く
  A pet daughter must be kept under strict guard.
• 虫が食う
  to be eaten by worms
• 虫の食った本
  a worm-eaten volume
• 鶏は地を掻いて虫をあさる
  A hen scratches for worms―scrapes for worms.

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〈熟語〉

用例

• 飛んで火に入る夏の虫
  to fly in the face of Providence

• 虫がかぶる
  to travail―be taken with travail―have labour-pains―suffer pangs of childbirth―have the throes of childbirth
• 赤児が虫を起こす
  A baby becomes excitable.
• 子どもが虫気も無く育った
  The child grew up in perfect health.
• もう虫の息だ
  He is at his last gasp.
• 虫の息も無い
  Not a speak of life remains.
• 虫の居所が悪かった
  I was in ill humour―out of humour.
• 腹の虫がまだ承知しない
  My inner man is not yet satisfied.
• 好きな専門を選ぶと腹の虫が承知する
  Every fibre of your being consents to the profession of your choice.
• 好きでない専門を選ぶと腹の虫が承知しない
  Every fibre of your being protests against a profession which is not congenial to your tastes.
• 腹の虫を殺す
  to repress one's inclinations
• 虫も殺さないような顔をしている
  He looks as innocent as a lamb―（女なら）―She looks as if batter would not melt in her mouth.
• 小の虫を殺して大の虫を助ける
  to save the many at the expense of the few―sacrifice the few for the sake of the many―Death to the criminal is mercy to the people
• 一寸の虫にも五分の魂【イディオム・格言的】
  “Tread on a worm, and it will turn”
  “A worn will turn”
  “Even a fly has its spleen.”
• 蓼食う虫も好き好き
  Tastes differ
  “There is no accounting for tastes.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 虫の知らせ
  a foreboding
  a presentiment
• 虫が知らせる
  One forebodes―has a foreboding―has a presentiment.
• 虫の知らせで死期のわかる人がある
  Some people forebode death.
• 君が来るだろうと思った、やはり虫が知らせたのだ
  I had foreboding―I had a presentiment―that you would come.
• あの人は虫が好かぬ
  I have an antipathy to that man.
• 虫の好かぬ男だ
  He is a disagreeable fellow.
• 虫の好い男だ
  He is an impudent fellow.
• 虫の良いことを言っている
  He looks to his own interests―consult his own convenience.
• 虫の好過ぎる話だ
  His plan is too selfish―too self-seeking.