四方

しほう
every direction

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しほう【四方】

¶ → 四方八方に

¶ → 四方八方から

¶～を山に囲まれた地域

a close area

¶メインストリートは中央広場から～にのびている

The main streets radiate from the central square.

¶9フィート～の部屋は広さ81平方フィートとなる

A room 9 feet square contains ［has an area of］ 81 square feet.

¶日本は～を海に囲まれている

Japan is surrounded by ［with］ (the) sea.

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I

しほう【四方】

1 〔東西南北の方角･すべての方角･周囲〕 the four quarters; the cardinal points; four sides; all sides; all directions.

●その山頂から 20 キロ四方が見渡せる. From the top of the mountain you can see for twenty kilometers in every direction.

●(敵が)四方から攻め寄せる attack [close in on] 《us》 from all sides [every direction]

・四方から取り囲まれる be [get] surrounded on all sides

・四方から文句を言われて彼はその案を引っ込めざるをえなかった. Criticized on every side [Faced with complaints on all sides], he was forced to withdraw the proposal.

●四方に on all sides; on every side; in all directions; all around

・四方に飛び散る be scattered [scatter] in all directions

・四方に広がった枝 branches spreading in all directions

・この駅から四方に線路が延びている. Railway lines radiate from this station.

・原発から漏れた放射性物質は周囲 20 キロ四方にまで広がった. Radioactive materials leaking from the nuclear power plant spread over an area of twenty kilometers in each direction.

・爆発音は 5 キロ四方に渡って聞こえた. The explosion was heard within a radius of five kilometers [over a five-kilometer range]. | The explosion could be heard (as far as) five kilometers away (in each direction).

●石室の四方の壁 the four walls of a stone burial chamber

・四方の山はすっかり雪化粧をした. The surrounding mountains were clad with snow.

●四方を見回す look (around) in every direction; look all around one

・四方を見渡す command a view in every direction

・四方を海に囲まれている be surrounded (on all sides) by the sea.

2 〔正方形のたて･よこ〕

●20 センチ四方の布 a cloth with sides of twenty centimeters [twenty-centimeter sides]

・10 キロ四方の中にコンビニが 500 店もある. There are as many as five hundred convenience stores in an area ten kilometers square.

●四畳半というのは大体 3 メートル四方です. A four-and-a-half mat (tatami) room is [measures] three meters square.

四方八方 ⇒しほうはっぽう.

II

よも【四方】

⇒しほう².

●四方の山々 mountains on all sides

・四方の景色を眺める look over the scenery all around.