英和和英

読み方 み

名詞

1

（＝身体）the body; one's person

用例

• 身に滲みる
  to pierce the body―penetrate the body

• 身二つ
  parturition
• 身二つになる
  to be delivered of a child

2

（＝我が身）oneself

用例

• 苦しい時は身一つ【イディオム・格言的】
  “Everybody for himself, and God for us all”
  “Everybody for himself and devil take the hindmost.”

• 身自ら招いて人之に乗ず
  to give a handle to one's enemies

3

（＝身の上）（one's） life, state, condition, plight, predicament, lot, welfare, fortunes, circumstances

用例

• 彼は安楽な身だ
  He is in easy circumstances
  He lives at his ease.

• 寡婦は哀れな身だ
  The window is in a sorry plight―in a sad predicament―in a bad way.
• 彼は職を辞して散閑の身だ
  He has resigned his office, and is now a man of leisure.
• あれは身寄り頼りも無いはかない身だ
  He is a poor orphan without kith or kin.
• 今にも別るるはかない身
  We are poor lovers that must part.
• 彼は日蔭の身だ
  He is under a cloud―under an eclipse―in disgrace―A cloud hangs over his name.
• 俺は老い先の短い身だ
  I have not long to live
  I am not only for this world.
• 彼は人まじわりのできない身だ
  He is an outeast from society.
• 囚われの身だ
  He is a prisoner―a convict.
• 刑余の身だ
  He is a returned convict―an ex-convict.
• 妻帯の身
  （the holy estate of） matrimony
• 彼は妻帯の身だ
  He is a married man.
• 妻帯の身になる
  to change one's condition
• 独り身
  single life―single blessedness
• 彼（女）は一人身だ
  He is a bachelor
  She is a spinster.
• 自由の身だ
  I am my own master―my own man.
• 自由の身になる
  to get free―be set free―be set at liberty
• 僕は三時から自由の身だ
  I am free―master of my own time―after three.
• 女は二十一歳になると自由の身だ
  A woman is mistress of her own actions at twenty-one.

4

（＝心）one's heart; one's mind; one's soul

• 仕事に身を入れる
  to put one's heart in one's work

5

（＝生命）one's life

• 身を捨てる
  to lay down one's life

6

（＝生活、品行）one's life

• 身を修める
  to order one's life

7

（＝人格）one's character

• 身に添わぬ
  to be out of keeping with one's character

8

（＝運）one's lot

用例

• 憂き目を忍ぶは人たる者の身
  It is man's lot to suffer.

• 袖の干ぬのは女の身
  It is woman's lot to weep
  Woman must weep.
• 私は辛い身です
  Mine is a bitter lot.

9

（＝力）one's power

• 身に叶う、身に叶わぬ
  to be in one's power―beyond one's power

10

（＝刀身）a blade

用例

• 新身｛あらみ｝
  a virgin blade

• 身から出た錆
  the consequences of one's own deeds
• 身から出た錆と諦めろ
  Take the conese-quences of your own deeds!
• 身から出た錆で悩む
  to suffer from the consequences of one's own folly 【イディオム・格言的には：】“fry in one's own grease”

11

（＝魚の肉）flesh

用例

• この魚は骨ばかりで身が無い
  This fish is all bone and no flesh.

• （魚の）身をむしる
  to separate the flesh from the bone
• 骨に近いほど身がうまい
  “The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.”【イディオム・格言的】

12

（＝中身）contents

• この本は身が無い
  The book is poor in contents.

13

（＝汁の身）vegetables （put in Japanese bean-soup）

14

〈熟語〉

ａ

（身が）

用例

• 身が立つ
  to be saved from ruin

• お蔭で身が立ちます
  You have saved me from ruin.
• それでは僕の身が立たぬ
  Then I shall be ruined.
• 身が立つようにしてやる
  I will save you from ruin.
• 身が立たぬようにしてやる
  I will ruin him.
• 彼は身が持てない
  He can not keep straight.
• 女に可愛がられる色男は身が持てない
  It is hard for an Adonis to keep straight.
• 彼は仕事に身が入らぬ
  He has no heart for his work.
• 身が縮まるほど寒い
  It is cold enough to huddle one up.

ｂ

（身も）

用例

• 身も世もあられぬ思い
  overwhelming emotion―agonizing feeling

• 身も世もあられぬ思いをした
  I was overwhelmed with emotion―in agony.
• 身も世もあられぬ悲み
  overwhelming sorrow―agonizing grief

ｃ

（身に）

用例

• 身に付ける
  to keep anything on one's person―have anything about one's person

• この守りを身に付けて離すな
  Keep this amulet on your person!
• 悪銭身に付かず【イディオム・格言的】
  “Ill-got, ill-spent”
  “Ill-gotten wealth does not prosper.”
• あぶく銭は身に付かぬ
  Lightly come, lightly go.
• 身に覚え無し
  I am innocent （of the crime）.
• 大難が身に降りかかる
  A danger impends over one―hangs over one's head.
• 人の身になり代る
  to put oneself in the place of others
• 僕の身になって見給え
  Put yourself in my place!
• あの人の身になりたくない
  I would not stand in his shoes for the world.
• （人の難儀を）我が身に引き比べる
  to enter into another's troubles
• 身に余る光栄です
  The honour is more than I deserve―above my deserts.
• 身に故障絶えず
  He is always in some trouble or other―always ill.
• 僕の身にとっては酒は薬だ
  Wine is a medicine in my case―with me.
• 貧窮は武士の身にとっては恥でない
  Poverty is no shame in the case of a samurai―with a samurai.
• 身に換えて御守護仕らん
  I will protect you at the peril of my life.
• 身に添わぬ
  to be out of keeping with one's character
• そんな地位は身に添わぬ
  The position is out of keeping with my character―too good for me.
• 魂も身に添わぬ
  （嬉しくてなら）to be beside oneself with joy―in raptures―in ecstasies―（悲しくてなら）―beside oneself with grief
• 身に叶うことなら何でも致します
  I will do anything in my power.
• 彼を救うことは身に叶わぬ
  It is beyond my power to save him.
• 身に及ぶだけ尽します
  I will do all I can―do the best in my power―do my best―do my utmost.
• 身になる
  to nourish one―do one good
• 珍味は身にならぬ
  Delicacies do not nourish.
• 気がねしながら食っては身にならぬ
  Food taken under constraint does not fill.
• あのような教えは身にならぬ
  Such teaching do you no good.
• 身に浸みる
  to pierce the body―penetrate the body
• 北風が身に浸みる
  The north wind cuts the skin.
• 寒さが身に浸みる
  The cold penetrates to the bone.
• 身に浸みる寒さ
  biting cold
• 身に染みる
  to sink deep into one's mind―come home to one's heart
• 彼の言葉が身に染みた
  His words sank deep into my mind―came home to my heart.
• 彼の親切が身に染みた
  His kindness sank into my inmost soul―touched my heart―touched me to the heart.
• ご教訓は身に染みました
  Your teachings have come home to my heart.
• この経験が身に染みた
  The experience has pierced me to the quick.
• 身に染みてありがたい
  I am deeply thankful.
• 身に染み渡る鶴のひと声
  Your gracious words thrill through me―send a thrill through my veins.
• あの唄を聞くと身につまされる
  The song appeals to my heart.

ｄ

（身の）

身のまわり→『みのまわり（身の廻り）』

用例

• 身の置き所が無い
  I do not know what to do with myself.

• 腹も身の内
  Be careful what you put in your belly.
• 身の始末もできぬ
  He can not take care of his own welfare.
• 身の明りを立てる
  to clear oneself―justify oneself―establish one's innocence―vindicate one's character
• 身の光栄と存じます
  I appreciate the honour.
• 身の行末
  one's future
• 身の行末が案じられる
  I am concerned about my future.
• 身の行末はどうなることか
  What will become of me?
• 身の詰まり
  one's ruin
• 惚れられたのが身の詰まり
  He was beloved to his ruin.
• ちょいとなめたが身の詰まり
  A taste of pleasure was my ruin.
• 金は身の仇
  Money brings one evil.
• 芸は身の仇
  Accomplishments prove one's ruin.
• 身の不幸をかこつ
  to repine at one's misfortune―curse the day of one's birth
• 彼女に逢ったのが身の不幸
  I met her in an evil hour.
• 身の宝は朽ちぬ
  The treasures of the mind do not decay.
• 身の安全を図る
  to provide for one's safety―look to one's own safety―save one's life

ｅ

（身は）

用例

• 心二つに身は一つ
  One can not be in two places at the same time.

• （義は泰山よりも重く）身は鴻毛よりも軽し
  I hold my life at nothing as compared with my cause.
• 身は任しても心は任せぬ
  I am yours in body, but not in heart.

ｆ

（身を）

用例

• 我が身をつねって人の痛さを知れ
  Judge of other's feelings by your own.

• 夢でないかと身をつねってみる
  I doubt the evidence of my senses
  I can not realize my situation.
• 身をつねって思い出す
  to refresh one's memory―jog one's memory―fillip one's memory
• 身を潜める、身を忍ばせる
  to conceal oneself―hide （oneself）
• 一人の男が木の蔭に身を忍ばせておった
  A man was concealed―hiding―behind some trees.
• 身をかわす、身を開く
  to dodge
• 身を開いて打ち込む太刀を除けた
  I dodged the falling blow.
• 身を投げる
  to throw oneself into a river―drown oneself in a river―commit suicide
• 身を投ずる
  （事業になら）to embark in an enterprise―launch forth on an enterprise―（投機になら）―venture on a speculation―（政界になら）―plunge into politics―launch into politics
• 身を切るような北風
  a cutting north-wind
• 身を切るような寒さ
  biting cold
• 身を切られるよりも辛かった
  It was more than flesh and blood could bear.
• そう言われるのは身を切られるようだった
  His words cut me to the heart.
• 身を粉にして働く
  to fag oneself to death―drudge oneself to death―slave oneself to death
• 身を落とす
  to degrade oneself
• 身を屈する、身を屈して賤しいことをする
  to stoop to meanness―descend to baseness
• 身を屈して人のご機嫌を取った
  He stooped to flattery.
• 身を屈して乞食までもした
  He stooped to beggary.
• 身を売る
  to sell one's chastity―prostitute oneself
• 身を持て余している
  I do not know what to do with myself.
• 我が身を省る
  to reflect on oneself
• 身を委する
  （英語研究になら）to devote oneself to the study of English―（教育事業になら）―commit oneself to the cause of education
• 君に仕えて身を致す
  to devote oneself to one's lord
• 彼は身を厭わぬ
  He spares no pains
  He is unsparing of himself.
• 身を捨てる
  to lay down one's life―sacrifice oneself
• 身を捨ててこそ浮かぶ瀬もあれ
  “Risk all and gain all.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 身を軍籍に置く
  to profess arms
• 川竹に身を沈める
  to lead a life of shame―live in open sin
• 芸は身を助く
  Art brings bread.
• 芸が身を助くる不幸せ
  She is so unfortunate that her art must win her daily bread.
• 身で身を苦める
  to torment oneself
• 身で身を食う
  to ruin oneself―bring ruin on oneself
• 粋は身を食う
  Fashion is ruin to some people.
• 人に身を任せる
  to place oneself in another's power
• 女が男に身を任せる
  A woman surrenders her chastity to a man―gives herself to a man.
• 身を寄せる
  to go to some one for assistance―become a dependent on one
• 身を立てる
  to advance in life―get on in life―establish oneself in life
• 身を固める
  to settle down （to some business）
• 彼は女房を持って身を固めた
  He got married and settled down―settled down to a married life.
• 卑賤より身を起こす
  to rise from obscurity
• 一兵卒より身を起こして大将になった
  He rose from the ranks to be a general.
• 身を誤る
  to fall into error―go astray
• 女学生は監督が無いと往々身を誤る
  School-girls, if left to themselves, will drift into error.
• 大才子は徳を磨かないと往々身を誤る
  Great wits are often wrecked on the rock of immorality.
• 身を持ちくずす
  to go to the bad
• 身を亡ぼす
  to ruin oneself
• 身をやつす
  to disguise oneself
• 彼は山伏に身をやつした
  He disguised himself as a monk.
• 山伏に身をやつして逃げた
  He fled under the guise of a monk.
• 仕事に身を入れる
  to put one's heart into one's work
• 彼は仕事に身を入れない
  He has no heart for his work.
• 彼は今度の計画にたいそう身を入れている
  He goes, heart and soul, into the scheme.
• 学問に身を入れる
  to devote oneself to one's studies
• 人の事に身を入れる
  to interest oneself in others' affairs
• 身を入れて働く
  They work with a will.
• 身を全うする
  to save one's life―save one's bacon―save oneself
• 僅かに身をもって免れた
  He escaped with bare life.
• 身を修める
  to order one's life―lead a virtuous life―live a noble life―cultivate moral excellence―attain moral excellence
• 身を尽す
  to do all one can―do the best in one's power―do one's best―do one's utmost
• 身を退く
  to resign （one's post）
• 身を処す
  to conduct oneself