痩せる

やせる【痩せる】

①［体が］

〔細くなる， 細る， スリムになる， ほっそりする〕

**lose

/lúːz/ |他|(体重)を減らす， (…キロ・ポンド)やせる(⇔gain)

She has lost (some) weight. 彼女は体重が(少し)減った［やせた］《◆ She has lost her weight. はダイエットなどをして「(意図的に)減らした」という意味だが， 「体重すべてを失った」という意味にもなり得るので， She has lost much ［some］ of her weight. のようにいうのが明確》

*slim

|自|(減食・運動などで)やせる；細くなる(down).

▲The illness thinned her down. 病気のために彼女はやせてしまった.

②［土地が］

become poor

be farmed out

(土地が)連作でやせる.

▲Over-cultivation has impoverished the soil. 過剰栽培のため土地がやせてしまった.

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やせる【痩せる】

1 〔体の肉づきが悪くなる〕 become [grow, get] lean [thin]; grow gaunt [slim]; lose weight; (病気で) become emaciated; lose flesh; (心配で) pine away; (ダイエットして) slim down. [⇒やせた]

●苦労でやせる be macerated with cares

・顔がやせている be thin in the face

・やせる薬 ＝やせぐすり

・やせる(ための)メニュー a menu for slimming down

・やせさせる reduce flesh [weight]

・やせたがる desire to lose weight

・やせるほど心配する worry so much one loses weight

・やせるための運動をする take weight-reducing [slimming] exercises

・やせるための特別な食事をとる be [go] on a reducing [slimming] diet.

●ずいぶんやせたね. You've gotten much thinner than you were. | You appear to have lost weight.

・夏の間に 3 キロやせた. I lost three kilograms during the summer.

・なんとかしてあと 5 キロやせたい. Somehow or other I'd like to lose five more kilos.

・しばらく会わないうちに母は一回りやせたようだった. During the time I hadn't seen my mother she appeared to have gotten one size smaller.

・あの巨漢が, 亡くなる前には 40 キロまでやせてしまった. That giant had shriveled to a mere 40 kilos before he passed away.

・上流の森が切られ, 川の流れはすっかりやせてしまった. With the cutting of the forest upstream, the river current shrank considerably.

・ひどい旱魃(_かんばつ)でどこの畑の作物もやせていた. With the long drought, all of the fields have lost their fertility.

・彼の無事がわかるまでの 1 週間というものはやせる思いだった. During the week it took to learn that he was safe, I grew thin with worry.

2 〔地味が乏しくなる〕 become [grow, get] sterile [infertile, impoverished].

●やせた sterile; barren; infertile; meager [⇒やせた]

・やせさせる impoverish 《the soil》.

●この畑はやせていて何もできない. This field is too sterile to yield anything.

・トマトを連作すると土地がやせてしまう. If you raise successive crops of tomatoes on the land, it will grow impoverished.

やせても枯れても however down on one's luck one may be; no matter how much reduced circumstances one may be in.

●やせても枯れても俺はこの家の主だ. Poor as I am, I am still the head of the house.