英和和英

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形容詞相当語句

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Long

用例

• 杖が五寸長い
  The stick is six inches too long.

• 夏は日が長い
  The days are long in summer.
• 春は日が長くなる
  The days grow longer―The day gains on the night―in spring.
• 長い月日に短い命
  Time is long, and life is short.
• 長い年月
  long years
• 一芸を修めるには長い年月を要する
  It takes years to master an art.
• 彼は長い間（長いこと）洋行していた
  He has long been abroad
  He has stayed abroad for a long time.
• どうぞ長くご交際を願います
  I hope our intercourse may be of long duration.
• 長い交際
  an intercourse of long standing
• 長いうちには実力が顕われる
  Real ability asserts itself in the long run.
• 病人は長いことはあるまい
  The invalid has not long to live
  He is not long for this world.
• 細く長く
  “Love me little, love me long.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 彼は髪を長く伸ばしている
  He wears his hair long.
• 息が長い
  to be long-winded
• 彼は舌が長い
  He has a long tongue―a thick utterance.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 京都者は気が長い
  Kyoto people are slow―deliberate.

• 気を長く持ち給え
  Be patient!
• 長い目で見ておれ
  Time will show.
• 鼻の下が長い
  He is susceptible to female charms
  He is spooney.
• 英語で長い話ができるか
  Can you keep up a conversation in English?
• 君らは先が長い
  You have the world before you.
• 帯に短かし襷｛たすき｝に長し
  There is no suitable one
  None of them suit me.
• 長い短いを言わずに金を出せ
  Down with your money without any more palaver!
• 長いものにはまかれろ
  There is no contending against a man in power
  “Kings have long arms.”【イディオム・格言的】