英和和英

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形容詞相当語句

1

Hot

用例

• 唐辛子のように辛い
  It is as hot as cayenne pepper.

• 山椒は小粒でもヒリリと辛い
  short but sharp―short but smart

2

（＝塩辛い）salt; salty; briny; brackish

用例

• 田舎の料理は辛い
  Country dishes have too much salt in them.

• 田舎では物を辛く煮る
  People in the country cook their food with too much salt.
• この漬物は辛い
  The pickles are too much salted.
• 手前味噌は辛い
  “All his geese are swans.”【イディオム・格言的】

3

（＝きつい）strong （tobacco）

• このタバコは辛い、もっと甘いのは無いか
  This tobacco is too strong for me. Haven't you some more mild?

4

（＝つらい）hard; bitter

用例

• 辛い世の中だ
  The times are hard―what a hard world it is!

• 辛い目に逢った
  I have had a bitter experience―had a hard time of it.
• 彼は甘いも辛いも承知している
  He has tasted the sweets and bitters of life.

5

（＝酷な）hard; harsh

用例

• 辛い目に逢わせられた
  I have been dealt hard measure―ill used.

• 先生は点が辛い
  He is sparing of his marks―a bad marker.

読み方 つらい

形容詞相当語句

Hard to bear; hard; bitter; trying; trying to the nerves

用例

• 貧乏は辛い
  Poverty is hard to bear
  It is hard to be poor.

• 僕は貧乏はそう辛いと思わぬ
  I do not find poverty so hard to bear.
• ボロを隠そうとしなけりゃ貧乏も辛くなくなる
  Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sting.
• 朝から晩まで働くのは辛いことじゃ
  It is hard that I must work from morning till night.
• 汗水流してためた金をただ取られるのは辛いことじゃ
  It is hard lines for me that I must give up the money I toiled so hard for.
• 別れが辛い
  It is hard to part.
• 別れが辛かった
  I found it hard to part
  I felt a great tug at parting
  Prating was a tug.
• 奉公は辛い
  Service is trying.
• 主人の機嫌をとるのが何より辛い
  It is most trying to the nerves to keep in your master's good graces.
• それを言われるのが何より辛い
  I shall never hear the end of the matter.
• そう言われるのが何より辛い
  That is the hardest part of all.
• 生きているのが辛い
  Life hangs heavy upon me
  Life is a millstone about my neck.
• 身を斬られるよりも辛い
  It is more than flesh and blood can bear.
• 辛いこと
  a hardship
• 僕は辛いことには慣れている
  I am inured to hardships
  I am used to roughing it.
• 辛い経験、辛い思い
  a trying experience―a bitter experience―a bitter cup―a bitter pill to swallow
• 辛い思いをした、辛い目に逢った
  I had a trying experience―had a bitter experience―bad a hard time of it―had to drink a bitter cup―had to swallow a bitter pill.
• 辛い生活をする
  to live a hard life―lead a dog's life of it
• 悪い女房のお蔭で辛い生活をした
  My wife has led me a dog's life of it.
• 君にそうされると僕は辛い立場になる
  You place one in a delicate position.
• 旅は憂いもの辛いもの
  Travelling is full of hardships and privations.
• 待つは憂いもの辛いもの
  “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 辛く当たる
  to be hard on one―down on one
• 彼女は継子に辛く当たる
  She is hard on her stepchildren.