火事

かじ
fire
conflagration

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かじ【火事】

〔火災， ぼや， 火， 大火， 近火〕 ⇒ かさい

**fire

〖C〗〖U〗火災

a big fire 大火事

a forest fire 森林火災

the frequency of fires 火事の多発

A fire broke out in the boiler house yesterday. ＝There was a fire in the boiler house yesterday. 昨日ボイラー室で火事が起った

All (of) the town was destroyed by a fire. 町は火事で全焼した

Five lives were lost in the fire. 火事で5人が死んだ.

¶ → 対岸の火事

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かじ【火事】

a fire. [＝かさい¹]

●大火事 a big [large] fire; a conflagration

・原因不明の火事 a fire of unknown origin.

●駅前で火事があった. There was a fire in front of the station.

・冬は火事が多い. There are frequent fires in winter.

・冬場は火事が一番怖い. The wintertime poses the biggest risks of fire.

・火事が大きくなりそうだ. The fire is threatening to spread.

・すぐそこまで火事が迫っていた. The fire had spread quite close.

●火事で焼ける be burnt [destroyed] in a fire

・火事で逃げ場を失う be trapped in a fire; be cut off by a fire

・昨日の火事で 20 戸が焼失した. Twenty homes were destroyed in yesterday's fire.

・火事で蔵書を全部焼いてしまった. I had all my books burnt in [lost all my books to] the fire.

●火事にあう suffer [fall victim to] a fire

・その一家は火事にあって焼け出された. The family lost its home in a fire.

・大した火事にはなるまい. It doesn't look like it will be much of a fire.

●火事の現場 the scene of a fire

・ストーブの消し忘れがその火事の原因と見られている. A heater that was left on is thought to have been the cause of the fire.

●火事を消す put out [extinguish] a fire

・火事を出す cause [start] a fire

・自家から火事を出す have [let] a fire break out in one's own house.

●火事だ. Fire!

・火事はどこだ. Where is the fire?

・小学校が火事だ. The schoolhouse is on fire!

・火事は下火になった. The fire died down [began to burn less fiercely]. | The fire was reduced to embers.

・消防車が来て火事はすぐに消えた. The firetrucks came and the blaze was soon out.

・火事は 1 時間ばかりで消し止められた. The fire was put out [stopped] in about an hour.

・昨夜の火事は漏電が原因だった. Last night's fire was caused by an electric short.

・その火事は風呂屋から出た. The fire started in a public bathhouse.

火事明かり light from a fire; firelight.

火事嵐 〔大火時の強風〕 a firestorm; a large fire fueled by the high winds which it draws in from all sides; the winds [drafts] drawn into the center of a fire by the fire's updraft.

火事騒ぎ a fire panic.

火事泥 ＝かじばどろぼう.

火事場 ⇒かじば.

火事見舞 ⇒かじみまい.