英和和英

読み方 しゅび

名詞

1

（＝終始）beginning and end

用例

• 彼の行動は首尾一貫している
  His conduct is consistent.

• 首尾一貫せず
  His conduct is inconsistent.

2

（＝都合）fortune; luck; success

首尾好く→『しゅびよく（首尾好く）』

用例

• 首尾はいかが
  How did you fare?
  How fared it with you?

• 首尾好し
  I fared well
  It fared well with me.
• 首尾悪し
  I fared ill
  It fared ill with me
  It went hard with me.
• 万事上首尾
  All has gone well （with me）.
• 万事不首尾
  All has gone wrong （with me）.
• 試験は上首尾（不首尾）であった
  My examination was a success―a failure.
• 天地間の事は万事首尾の好いように仕組んである【イディオム・格言的】
  “Everything is for the best”
  “Whatever is, is right.”
• 万事首尾の好いようにはからった
  I have done everything for the best.

3

（＝気受け）favour

用例

• 彼は主人の首尾が好い
  He is in favour with his master―in his master's good graces―in his master's good books.

• 主人の首尾が悪い
  He is out of favour with his master―in disgrace with his master―in his master's black books.
• 上々の首尾で御前を退出した
  He retired from his lord's presence under the fairest auspices.

4

（＝はからい）management; arrangement

用例

• 首尾をする
  to manage to do anything―arrange anything

• 二人は首尾をして会った
  They managed to meet each other―arranged a meeting.