英和和英

読み方 とても

副詞

1

（＝どうしても、到底）（can not） possibly; （can not） by any possibility; （none） at all; （none） in the world; not nearly （so）; nothing like （as）; beyond （hope）; past （all hope）

用例

• 彼はとても助からない
  He can not possibly be saved
  He can not by any possibility be saved
  He is beyond help
  He is past all help.

• とても助かる見込みが無い
  There is no hope of his recovery in the world
  He is beyond hope of recovery
  He is past all hope of recovery.
• とても望みが無い
  There is no hope at all―no hope in the world―no possible hope.
• とても死は免れない
  He can not by any possibility escape death.
• 彼にはとても勝てる見込みは無い
  I stand no chance at all against him.
• 君には力ではとても及ばない
  I am not nearly so strong as you―nothing like as strong as you.
• 君にはとてもかなわない
  I am not nearly a match for you―not a patch upon you.
• 僕にはとても成功はできない
  I can not possibly succeed
  My success is out of the question.
• そんなことはとてもできない
  It is quite impossible―a sheer impossibility.
• 彼女は器量ではとても姉には及ばぬ
  She is not nearly so beautiful as her sister―nothing like as beautiful as her sister.
• 僕らの英語はとても彼には追っつかない
  Our English is not nearly so good as his―nothing like as good as his―We can not hold a candle to him in English.
• 彼はとても五十台の人とは見えぬ
  He does not at all look like a man in his fifties.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• そんなことはとても適うことではない
  It is utterly hopeless―Those are wild hopes―wild wishes.

• とても叶わぬ恋だと諦めた
  I have made up my mind that my love is utterly hopless.
• とてもと思った望みが叶った
  My wildest hopes have been fulfilled
  My wildest wishes have been realized.
• こんな飯はとても食われたものじゃない
  This rice is not fit to be eaten.
• こんな水はとても飲まれたものじゃない
  This water is not fit to be drunk.
• 彼がそんなことをしようとはとても信じられぬ
  I can not persuade myself that he can have done such a thing.
• 彼はとても学者などと言えた柄じゃない
  He can not pretend to the name of scholar.
• 彼女はとても美人などと言った柄じゃない
  She has no pretension to beauty.

2

（＝何とも言えないほど、たいへん）unspeakably; unutterably; awfully; stunning; rattling; ripping; thundering

用例

• この料理はとてもうまい
  The dish is awfully good―thundering good.

• とても好い酒だ
  This is awfully good wine―thundering good wine―stunning wine―spanking wine―ripping wine―rattling wine.
• とても面白かった
  We had a rattling good time―a ripping good time―a spanking good time―a thundering good time.
• とても偉い
  He is unspeakably great.
• とても偉い人だ
  There is an immense crowd―a tremendous crowd―a stupendous crowd.
• とてもすてきね
  It is stunning―a stunner―a spanker―a rattler―a ripper―a scorcher―a screamer―a smasher―a whopper.