英和和英

読み方 はん

名詞

1

（＝めし）boiled rice

2

（＝食事）a meal （breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper）

用例

• ご飯ですよ
  Breakfast is ready.

• （召使いが）ご飯ができました
  Dinner is served.

読み方 まま

名詞

（A child's name for） boiled rice; （or） a meal

読み方 まんま

名詞

（A child's name for） boiled rice; （or） a meal

読み方 めし

名詞

1

（＝米飯）boiled rice; cooked rice

用例

• 飯を炊く
  to boil rice―cook rice

• 飯は炊くばかりに用意ができている
  The rice is ready for cooking.
• 三杯の飯
  three bowls of rice
• 金持ちやっぱり飯三杯
  There are limits to the enjoyment of wealth.
• 白い飯
  plain rice
• 硬い飯、軟かい飯
  dry rice―moist rice
• 飯が硬い
  The rice is too dry.
• 飯が軟らかい
  The rice is too moist.
• 飯の上の蠅のようだ
  It is a nuisance.
• 一粒の飯
  a grain of boiled rice
• 飯粒
  grains of boiled rice
• 飯粒で鯉を釣る
  to throw a sprat to catch a whale
• 飯茶碗
  a rice-bowl
• 飯びつ
  a rice-tub
• 飯屋
  an eating-house

2

（＝食事）a meal; a dinner

用例

• 飯を食う
  to eat one's meals―take a meal―make one's meal

• 彼は飯を食いにうちへ行った
  He has gone home for his dinner.
• 彼といっしょに飯を食った
  I have dined with him―broken bread with him.
• 大飯を食う
  to make a hearty meal
• 彼は臭い飯を食ったことがある
  He has tasted prison diet
  He has been in prison
  He is an old jail-bird.
• 同じ釜の飯を食った仲だ
  We have eaten off the same trencher―lived under the same roof.
• 飯を食って行き給え
  Won't you stay dinner?
• 君が帰らないから飯を食わずに待っていた
  We have been waiting dinner for you.
• 誰が帰らなくとも待たずに飯を食う
  We wait dinner for no one.
• この子はよく飯を食う子だ
  The boy has a good appetite.
• 運動すると飯が食える
  Exercise gives you a good appetite.
• 心配で飯がのどを通らぬ
  Anxiety has deprived me of my appetite.
• 悪いことを聞いて飯をまずくした
  The bad news has spoiled my dinner.
• 飯を食わずにいる
  to go without one's meals
• 行って見ると家族は飯の最中だった
  I found the family at table.
• 目に三度の飯
  three meals a day
• 彼は三度の飯よりも読書が好きだ
  Books are meat and drink to him.
• 三度の飯を二度にしても国家の為に尽す
  I will make any sacrifices for the sake of my country.
• 飯時
  meal-time―dinner-hour

3

（＝生計）living; livelihood; one's bread

用例

• どうして飯を食っているか
  How do you live?―get your living?―make a living?―gain your livelihood?―earn your bread?

• 青年は第一に飯を食うことを覚えなければならぬ
  The first thing a young man must learn, is to get his living.
• 飯が食えるか
  Can you get your living?―gain your livelihood?―get enough to live on?
• どうかこうか飯を食っている
  I manage to live.
• なんとかして飯を食わねばならぬ
  I must live anyhow―make the pot boil―keep the pot boiling.
• 彼は独りで飯が食えるようになった
  He can now get his own living
  He has fallen into the way of getting his own living.
• 彼は僕に飯が食えるようにしてくれた
  He has put me in the way of getting my own living.
• 彼は何で飯を食っているか
  What does he live on?
• 月給で飯を食っている
  He lives on his salary.
• 商売をして飯を食っている
  He lives by his trade.
• 英語を教えて飯を食っている
  He lives by teaching English.
• 筆の先で飯を食っている
  He lives by the pen.
• 働いて飯を食っている
  He works for his living―works for his bread―earns his living.
• 働いて飯を食うのは恥じるに及ばぬ
  It is honourable to work for one's bread.
• 飯を食う為に働く
  to work for a living―work for one's bread
• 働かないで飯の食えるようになりたい
  I wish to rise above the necessity of labour.
• 彼は金が有るから働かないでも飯が食える
  His wealth raises him above the necessity of labour.
• 遊んでおって働かないで飯が食えるなら結構だ
  If you can live without working,―live in idleness,―eat the bread of idleness,―it is well.
• 彼は飯を食うだけの働きが有る（穀つぶしではない）
  He is earning his salary―worth his salt.
• 飯を食うだけの働きがない（穀つぶしだ）
  He is not worth his salt.
• 医者や弁護士は人の難儀で飯を食う
  Doctors and lawyers live on people's distresses.
• 話し家は世間の
  The story-teller lives upon
• 　あらで飯を食い
  The faults of men beneath the sun.
• 私は十年以上も海軍の飯を食っております
  I have served in the navy for upwards of ten years.
• あれは仙台の飯を食った男だ
  He was once a retainer of the Lord of Sendai.
• 他人の飯を食う
  to live among strangers―depend on strangers―to be in service
• お前は他人の飯を食ったことがない
  You have never been in service.
• 少しは他人の飯を食ってみるがよい
  You ought to know what it is to love among strangers―to depend on strangers.
• 彼は免職になったら飯の食い上げだ
  If he loses his place, he will have nothing to live on.
• そんなことをしたら飯の食い上げだ
  I should lose my place if I were to do such a thing
  It would cost me my place to do such a thing
  It is as much as my place is worth to do such a thing.
• 飯の種
  means of livelihood
• この本は飯の種だ
  The book is a pot-boller.