英和和英

読み方 ごまかす

自他動

1

To gammon, humbug, hoodwink, hocus, bamboozle （a person）; to put off （a person with fair words）; to fake, fake up （a questionable article）; to cook, cook up, manipulate （accounts）; to fudge （one's work）; to gloss over; gloze over; smoothe over （one's fault）; to slur over （a fact or a word）; to slide over （a delicate subject）; to explain away （a difficult passage）; to argue away （a knotty point）; to manage （a delicate matter）; to dodge; to shuffle; to throw dust in one's eyes

用例

• あの先生はよくごまかす
  He will gammon you―humbug you―throw dust in your eyes.

• 自分の間違いをうまくごまかす
  He will gloss over his mistake―gloze over his mistakes―smoothe over his mistakes.
• むずかしいところをごまかしてしまう
  He will slur over a hard word―explain away a difficult passage.
• （自分の説に）都合の悪い事実をごまかしてしまう
  He will slur over an unfavourable fact.
• 議論の難点をごまかしてしまう
  He will argue away a knotty point.
• 苦しくなると何とか彼とかごまかして切り抜ける
  When he finds himself in hot water, he will dodge and shuffle himself out of the difficulty.
• 筆の先で帳尻をごまかす
  to cook accounts―manipulate accounts
• 番頭が帳尻をごまかしたのが知れた
  The manager was caught cooking the accounts.
• 営業報告をごまかす銀行がある
  Some banks make cooked reports.
• 仕事をごまかす職人がある
  Some workmen fudge their work.
• いかさま物をごまかして本物に見せる
  to fake up a questionable article
• 彼は酒に酔っていると言ってその場をごまかした
  He said he was drunk to save appearances.
• うまいことを言ってごまかされるな
  Do not suffer yourself to be put off with fair words.
• メートルをごまかす
  to tamper with the gas-meter
• 言いにくいことをあっさりごまかす
  to slide over a delicate subject
• やりにくいことをうまくごまかす
  to manage a delicate matter
• どうかごまかしておこう
  I will manage it somehow.
• 舌の先でごまかす
  to talk anything away

2

（＝着服する） to embezzle, peculate, pocket （money）

用例

• 彼はその金をごまかしてしまった
  He pocketed the money.

• あの男は会社にいた時ずいぶんごまかしたそうだ
  He is said to have peculated large sums―embezzled large sums―while serving in the company.
• 馬丁が馬の麦をごまかす
  The groom steals the horse's oats.