月

つき
moon
month

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つき【月】

①［天体］

〔月光〕

**moon

［通例 the ～］ 月; ［a ～］ (特定の時期・形の)月

The moon encircles the earth. 月は地球のまわりを回る

Look. The moon is setting over the sea. ごらん， 月が海へ沈みかけている

The moon is waning this week. 今週月は欠け始める

The moon was shining bright. 月がこうこうと輝いていた

The moon lit ［lighted］ up the way. 月が道を照らした

a full ［new， half］ moon 満［新， 半］月

a waning ［crescent， waxing］ moon 下弦の［三日， 上弦の］月

There is a ［no］ moon tonight. 今夜は月が出ている［いない］

a pale moon おぼろ月.

▲Both the sea and the sand shimmered in the moonlight. 海も砂浜も月の光にかすかに光っていた.

¶ → 月の

②［暦］

〔1か月， ひとつき〕

**month

/mʌ́nθ/ 〖C〗 (暦の)月；ひと月

a lunar month 太陰月

January is the coldest of all the months in Japan. 日本では1月が最も寒い月だ

This room lets for 70， 000 yen a month. この部屋代は月7万円だ

an odd month 大の月

Write to us at least once a month. 少なくとも月に1度は手紙をよこしなさい

month by month 月々， 月ごとに(変化して).

▲a monthly meeting 月1回行なわれる会合.

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つき【月】

1 〔地球の衛星〕 the moon; 〔衛星〕 a moon; a satellite.

～の lunar.

●二十日(_はつか)の月 a moon 20 days old; a 20-day-old moon

・土星の月 the moons of Saturn; Saturn's moons.

●月が出た[昇った]. The moon has risen [come up, come out].

・赤い月が昇ってきた. A red moon rose.

・月が出ている. The moon is up [is out, has risen]. | There is a moon.

・月が西の空に低くかかっている. The moon has sunk low into the western sky.

・月が雲間から現れた. The moon peeked through the clouds.

・月が雲に隠れた. The moon went [hid] behind a cloud.

・月が入(_い)った[落ちた]. The moon has set [gone down].

・月が満ちてきた. The moon has become [《文》 waxed] fuller.

・月が満ちている. The moon is full.

・月が欠けている. The moon has waned.

・月がさえている. The moon is shining bright.

・今夜は月がない. There's no moon tonight.

●月から見た地球 the Earth seen from the moon.

●月に照らされて lit by the moon

・月に照らされた庭 a moonlit garden

・月に向かって moonward(s)

・月に叢雲(_むらくも)花に風. There are always clouds to obscure the moon, winds to scatter the blossoms. | Pleasure is often accompanied by disappointment. | Roses have thorns, silver fountains mud. <▲> 最後の英文は Shakespeare, Sonnet 35.

●月の光 moonlight; the light of the moon; 《文》 moonbeams [⇒「月の光」]

・月の暈(_かさ) a halo [ring] around the moon

・月の輪 ⇒つきのわ

・月の出 the rising of the moon; moonrise [⇒「月の出」]

・月の入り the setting of the moon; moonset

・月の宴(_えん) a moon-viewing party

・月の名所 a famous place for viewing the moon

・月の女神 the goddess of the moon; Diana; Phoebe

・月のしずく ⇒つきのしずく

・月の石 a moon rock

・月の裏側 the far [back] side of the moon

・月の地球に向いた側 the near [front] side of the moon

・月の探査 lunar exploration

・月の世界 ＝げっせかい; ⇒「月の世界」

・月の都 〔物語の〕 a palace on the moon; the moon palace

・月の軌道に乗る enter lunar orbit; go into orbit around the moon

・月の軌道を回る orbit the moon; make [do] a circumlunar flight

・月の出るころ when the moon rises [is rising]

・月のある[ない]夜 a moonlit [moonless] night

・月の明るい夜 a bright moonlight [bright(ly) moonlit] night

・金星が月の陰に隠れた. Venus went behind [《文》 was occluded by] the moon.

●月への旅[飛行] a trip [flight, voyage] to the moon; a lunar [moon] trip [flight, voyage]

・(宇宙船の)月への打ち上げ a moon launch(ing)

・月への着陸 (a) lunar [moon] landing.

●月を眺める look up at [《文》 gaze upon] the moon; 〔月見をする〕 view [enjoy] the full moon

・月を待って酒盛りを始める wait for the moon to come out before beginning a drinking party

・火星は 2 個の月を従えている. Mars has two moons [satellites].

●月は中天を過ぎて西に傾いていた. The moon had passed its zenith and was slipping down the western sky.

・月は満つれば欠ける. What goes up must come down. 【諺】

・何日の月ですか. How old is the moon?

2 〔時間の単位〕 a month; 《詩･雅》 a moon.

●月ごとに変わる特別メニュー the specials of the month; the monthly specials

・月ごとの出費 monthly [month-by-month] expenses

・月満ちてから出産する carry a baby to term

・彼女は月満ちて女の子を産んだ. She gave birth to a girl at (full) term.

●月が変われば (at the beginning of) next month.

●ひと月で in a [one] month; in a month's time.

●月に 〔1 か月に〕 《once》 a month; per month; 《文》 per mensem

・月に 1 度 once a month; monthly [⇒つきいち]

・月にいくらという計算で at so much per month

・月に 2 回の twice monthly; semimonthly; bimonthly; 《英》 fortnightly

・月に 1%の割合で増え続ける increase at the rate of 1 percent a month.

●月の初め[中ごろ, 終わり]に at the beginning [in the middle, at the end] of a month

・月の内に before the end of the month; before the month is out; in the course of the month

・その月の『リーダーズ･ダイジェスト』 that month's [the current] (issue of) Reader's Digest

・月の大小の覚え方 a way to remember how many days each month has <▲> 日本では小の月を「にしむくさむらい(2･4･6･9･11)」と覚えるが, 英米では次のように覚える. Thirty days hath September, / April, June, and November; / All the rest have thirty-one, / Excepting February alone, / And that has twenty-eight days clear / And twenty-nine in each leap year.

・月のもの 〔月経〕 one's period; 《口》 that time of the month; 《俗》 《be on》 the rag.

●月をまたぐ週 a week that falls in two different months; a week that extends from one month into the next.

●彼は月いくらの契約で雇われている. He is employed under a contract that pays him a certain amount [《口》 so much] per month. | He is paid by the month.

月とすっぽん

●両者は月とすっぽんだ[月とすっぽんほど違う] The two are as different as day and night [light from darkness, 《英》 chalk from cheese]. | They differ entirely. | There is a world of difference between the two.

小の月 a month with 30 or fewer days.

大の月 a 31-day month.

月明かり ⇒つきあかり.

お月様 the moon.

月周回軌道 a circumlunar orbit.

月探査機 《launch》 a lunar probe.

月着陸船 a lunar module (略: LM).

月ロケット a lunar [moon] rocket.