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1

（＝談話）（a） talk; a chat; conversation

用例

• 人と話をする
  to talk―have a talk―with one―（茶飲み話なら）―chat―have a chat―with one

• 戦争の話をする
  to talk about the war
• 君とゆっくり話をしてみたい
  I wish to have a long talk with you.
• このことについては彼と幾度も話をした
  I have had many talks with him about the matter.
• 皆が面白そうに話をしている
  They are having a pleasant chat.
• 時々話しに行く
  I often go for a chat with him.
• ちと話しに来給え
  Come for a chat sometimes!
• ちょっとお話ししたいことがある
  I wish to have a word with you.
• ちょっと内証でお話したい
  A word with you （in private）!
• 話を始める
  to enter into conversation
• 汽車の中で知らない人と話しを始めた
  In the train, I entered into conversation with a stranger.
• さっきも君の話が出た
  We were talking about you just now.
• 世間ではその話で持切っている
  People talk of nothing but that―talk of nothing else.
• 寄るとさわるとその話だ
  They can't meet without talking about that.
• 彼は話はわかっているがすることは阿呆だ
  He talks like a man of sense, but his actions are those of a fool.
• 積る話をする
  to compare notes （with each other）
• 積る話がしてみたい
  I should like to compare notes with him.
• 彼と話が合う
  We get on very well together.
• 話は合わない
  We can't get on together.
• たいそう話が持てますね
  You are getting on famously together.
• 話が持てなくなる、話がだれる
  The conversation flags.
• 話に花が咲く、話がはずむ
  The talk becomes animated.
• 話が陰気になる
  The talk becomes dismal.
• 話に実が入る
  The talk becomes earnest.
• 話が理に落ちる
  The talk grows serious.
• 話が前後しました
  I have got confused in my talk―got mixed up.
• 話がちと前後したが要するにこういうことさ
  I have got rather mixed up, but in short, what I mean is this.
• あの人の話はゴチャゴチャしている
  His ideas are confused.
• 話が下へ下がる
  The talk becomes foul
  The talk becomes filthy
  The conversation degenerates.
• 話もここまで来ればおしまいだ
  When you come to this point, talk is at an end.
• 話が途切れる
  There is a break in the talk―a pause in the talk.
• 話が絶える
  The talk dies.
• 話が立消えになる
  The talk dies a natural death.
• 話を絶やさぬ
  to keep up the talk―keep up the ball―keep the ball rolling―keep the pot boiling
• 話の腰を折る
  to interrupt one in one's talk―interrupt one's talk with a question
• 音楽の話で思い出したが田中令嬢の歌を聞いたか
  Talking of music, have you heard Miss Tanaka sing?
• 話のついでに君に尋ねたいことがある
  While I think of it, I have something to ask you.
• 話は違うが、今、帝劇で何をやっているかね
  By the bye, what are they performing at the Imperial?
• 猥褻な話
  foul talk―filthy talk
• 辻褄の合わぬ話
  incoherent talk
• 筋違いの話
  illogical talk
• ありのままの話
  the truth―the whole truth
• ありのままの話をする
  to tell the truth―state a fact as it is
• この場限りの話だがあの人の言うことは当てにならぬ
  Between ourselves, he is not to be relied upon.
• 尾籠なお話ですが全くその通りなのです
  It is, saving your presence, just as I say.
• 人に話をしかける
  to engage one in conversation
• 話の種
  a topic of conversation
• 話の種は尽きぬ
  Topics of conversation are never wanting.
• 戦争は好い話の種になる
  The war affords a good topic for conversation.
• 戦争はいつも話の種だ
  The war is the staple of conversation.
• これは話の種になる
  I have added to my stock of knowledge.
• 今度の旅行には話の種がたくさんある
  I have had many adventures on my journey.
• こんな汚い小屋にお泊りになるのもお話の種です
  To stay for a night in such a squalid hovel, will be an adventure for you.
• 話の種に一つ見ておこう
  I will have a look at it, so that I may be able to say that I have seen it.
• 話し相手が無い
  I have no one to talk to.
• 話し相手が欲しい
  I want some one to talk to.
• 老人二人は好い話し相手だ
  The two old men are cronies.
• 僕は話し下手だ
  I am a poor talker.
• 話し上手の聴き下手
  He is a good talker, but a poor listener.
• 話し好き
  talkative―communicative―loquacious―chatty
• 老人は話し好きだ
  Old folks are garrulous.
• （電話）話し中
  Engaged!

2

（＝言）what one says; one's statement; a remark

用例

• あの人の話はさっぱりわからない
  I can make nothing of what he says.

• あの人の話は当てにならぬ
  His statements are not to be depended upon.
• お話の人はどこにいますか
  Where is the man you speak of?
• これがかねてお話の本ですか
  Is this the book you speak of?
• 君の話は後が悪い
  Your remarks have bad conclusions.

3

（＝話の種）a topic

用例

• よもやまの話をした
  We talked on different topics.

• 食事中宗教政治に関する話は禁物だ
  Religion and politics are forbidden topics at table.
• どんな話が学生に人気があるかね
  What sort of topics take with the students?

4

（＝話の問題）a subject; a question

用例

• 話を転ずる
  to change the subject

• 彼は一笑に付して話を転じた
  He lightly dismissed the subject with a laugh.
• この話はもう止そう
  Let us drop the subject.
• その話はもうご免だ
  I don't care to hear that subject mentioned.
• 彼はこの話がでるとご機嫌が悪い
  He is sore on the subject.
• 話の糸口を切る
  to broach the subject―break the ice
• 話に油が乗る
  to warm to one's subject
• そりゃ別の話だ
  That's another question―beside the question―aside from the subject.
• そんなことはてんで話にならぬ
  That is altogether out of the question.

5

（＝噂、評判、風説）what people say; report; a rumour; （a piece of） news

用例

• 世間の話では事態容易ならぬようだ
  People say that the matter grows serious.

• 彼はたいそう金持ちだという話だ
  They say that he is very rich
  He is said to be very rich.
• そりゃ耳寄りの話だ
  That's welcome news―a piece of good news.
• 話が好過ぎる
  The news is too good to be true.
• 根も葉も無い話だ、跡形も無い話だ
  The rumour is unfounded
  It is a groundless report.

6

（＝談判）negotiations

用例

• 話がまだそこまで運んでいない
  The negotiations are not yet so far advanced.

• 話を進めてよろしいか
  May I go on with the negotiations?―proceed with the negotiations?
• 話の糸口を切る
  to open negotiations―commence negotiations
• 話をまとめる
  to conclude the negotiations
• 話がまとまった
  The negotiations have come to a conclusion.
• 話をつける
  to arrange the matter―settle the matter
• 債権者と話をつけた
  I have arranged with my creditors―compounded with my creditors.
• 話がつく
  to come to terms―comes to an understanding
• なんとか話がつかないか
  Can't you come to some understanding?
• なんとか話がつくだろう
  I hope we shall come to some understanding?
• 話がついた
  We have come to terms―come to an understanding―come to an agreement―closed a bargain―struck a bargain.
• 二人は話しずくで別れた
  They separated by common consent.

7

（＝物語り、噺）a story; a tale; a legend; a fable; a narration; an anecdote; a yarn

用例

• お話をする
  to tell a story―spin a yarn

• 暗闇でお話をしておった
  We sat telling stories in the dark.
• 先生、お話をして下さい
  Sir, please tell us a story!
• 何の話をしましょうか
  What shall I tell you about?
• 誰か偉い人のお話を
  Tell us about some great man!
• 僕は話が下手だ
  I am a poor story-teller―a poor hand at telling stories―not much of a hand at spinning yarns.
• 君は話が上手だ
  You are a good story-teller―a good hand at telling stories―a capital hand at spinning yarns.
• サアお話を聞きましょう
  We are ready to hear your story.
• 今度は君の方の話を聞こう
  I will now hear your side of the story.
• そりゃ面白い話だ
  That is an interesting story―an amusing story.
• おかしな話だ
  It is a funny story.
• 際どい話だ
  It is a racy story―a spicy story.
• 為になる話だ
  It is an instructive story―（修身としてなら）―an edifying story.
• もっともらしい話だ
  It is a plausible story.
• ばかばかしい話だ
  It is an absurd story―a cock-and-bull story.
• 愚夫愚婦をだます話だ
  It is an old wives' tale.
• 猥褻な話だ
  It is an indecent story.
• ありふれた話だ
  It is the old, old story.
• いい加減の作り話だ
  It is a made-up story―a trumped-up story―a fabrication―an invention―a make-up.
• あの人の話は受取りにくい（話半分に聞け）
  His stories must be taken with a grain of salt
  His stories must be taken with some （grains of） allowance.
• 早い話が働かずに金を取ろうとしたのだ
  To make a long story short, he tried to obtain money without working for it.
• 値段がまるで話のようだ
  The price is fabulous
  It sounds like fiction.
• まるで嘘のような話だ
  It is an incredible story.
• 話変わって
  Meanwhile,
  In the meantime,...

8

（＝実見談）an account:（詳しい話）a description:（詳｛つまびら｝かな話）a recital

用例

• 見て来た話をする
  to give an account of what one has seen

• 戦地から帰った将校が戦争の話をした
  An officer returned from the front gave an account of the war.
• 彼の外国の話を聞いた
  I have heard his account of foreign countries.
• 身の上話をする
  to give an account of one's life―tell one's story
• 彼自身の話によるとずいぶん艱難辛苦を経ているようだ
  According to his own account, he seems to have gone through much.
• 皆の話によれば彼は偉い人らしい
  According to all accounts, he seems to be a great man.
• 皆の話の合わぬ筋がある
  The accounts are at variance with one another.
• 君の尋ねる人の詳しい話をしたらあるいは心当たりがあるかも知れぬ
  If you will describe the person you want, I may be able to identify him.
• 話だけではわからない、現物を見たいものだ
  I can form no idea from the description alone, and so I should like to see the article for myself.
• 彼の艱難辛苦の話をしたら大部の本ができよう
  If he were to recount all his hardships, it would fill a big volume
  A recital of his hardships would fill a big volume.
• 胸を掻きむしるような話
  the harrowing details （of a murder, etc.）

9

（＝事、訳）a matter; a case

用例

• 話がどう運んでいるか
  How does the matter stand?

• 話がまだそこまで運んでいない
  The matter is not yet so far advanced.
• そうなると話が違う
  That alters the case.
• 話をきめてもらいたい
  I with to have the matter settled.
• まじめな話を茶にしては困る
  You must not make light of a serious matter.
• （こんな物を本物だとは）ずいぶん人をばかにした話だ
  It is an insult to one's understanding.
• 三年待てとは人をばかにした話だ
  Wait three years? He is trifling with me.
• 無給で働けとはばかばかしい話だ
  Work for nothing? It is absurd
  It is simply nonsense.
• 殴られて謝れとは無法な話だ
  Apologize for being thrashed? It is preposterous.

10

（＝計画）a plan; a scheme

用例

• 雲をつかむような話だ
  It is a visionary scheme―a chimerical scheme.

• 虫の好過ぎる話だ
  His plan is too selfish.

11

〈その他〉

用例

• お話にならぬ（言語道断）
  It is unspeakable―unutterable.

• その傲慢無礼といったらお話にならぬ
  His insolence is atrocious.
• 彼の発音といったらお話にならぬ
  His pronunciation is atrocious―outrageous.
• ドイツ兵の残忍なことはお話にならぬ
  The cruelty of the Germans is monstrous.
• 値段はお話にならぬ
  The price is exorbitant.
• 先方の要求はお話にならぬ
  His demands are preposterous.
• お話にならぬ失錯をした
  I have committed an egregious blunder.
• 道が悪いといったらお話にならぬ
  The roads are execrable.
• お話にならない匂いだ
  It has a vile smell.
• お話にならないいやな味だ
  It has a villainous taste.
• 内部の乱脈といったらお話にならぬ
  The internal disorder is unspeakable―unutterable.
• イヤハヤどうもとてもお話にならぬ
  Well, well, well, it is simply unspeakable.

12

〈含蓄〉

用例

• お話を承って安心致しました
  You have relieved me of my anxiety
  You have removed a load off my mind.

• お話を承って誤りを悟りました
  You have convinced me of my error.
• お話を承って疑いを氷解しました
  You have dispelled my doubts.