もてあそぶ

**play

|自|【D】 【S】(子供・動物が)〔…を〕いじる， もてあそぶ〔with〕∥ She stopped the child (from) playing with matches. 彼女は子供がマッチをもてあそぶのをやめさせた

**toy

|自|〔…を〕いじくる， ふまじめに扱う〔with〕∥ Don't toy with her affections. 彼女の愛情をもてあそぶな

*fool

|自|〔…を〕いじくり回す， もてあそぶ(about， around)〔with〕

*trifle

|自|《正式》【D】 〔人を〕いいかげんに扱う， 軽くあしらう；〔他人の感情などを〕もてあそぶ〔with〕《◆受身可》∥ trifle with a woman's affections 女の愛情をもてあそぶ

fiddle

|自|《略式》〔物を〕いじくる， もてあそぶ(around， 《英》about)〔with〕

flirt

|自|《正式》〔考えを〕もてあそぶ， 〔危険などを〕軽く扱う

make a toy of O

…をもてあそぶ.

▲dally with a woman's affections 女の愛情をもてあそぶ / finger a doll 人形を指でもてあそぶ.

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もてあそぶ

**play

|自|〖D〗 〖S〗(子供・動物が)〔…を〕いじる， もてあそぶ〔with〕

She stopped the child (from) playing with matches. 彼女は子供がマッチをもてあそぶのをやめさせた

**toy

|自|〔…を〕いじくる， ふまじめに扱う〔with〕

Don't toy with her affections. 彼女の愛情をもてあそぶな

*fool

|自|〔…を〕いじくり回す， もてあそぶ(about， around)〔with〕

*trifle

|自|《正式》〖D〗 〔人を〕いいかげんに扱う， 軽くあしらう；〔他人の感情などを〕もてあそぶ〔with〕《◆受身可》

trifle with a woman's affections 女の愛情をもてあそぶ

fiddle

|自|《略式》〔物を〕いじくる， もてあそぶ(around， 《英》about)〔with〕

flirt

|自|《正式》〔考えを〕もてあそぶ， 〔危険などを〕軽く扱う

make a toy of O

…をもてあそぶ.

▲dally with a woman's affections 女の愛情をもてあそぶ

finger a doll 人形を指でもてあそぶ.

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もてあそぶ【弄ぶ】

1 〔持って遊ぶ〕 play 《cards》; amuse oneself 《with…》; take pleasure [delight] 《in…》; 〔いじくる〕 play [fiddle, twiddle] 《with fire》; toy 《with edged tools》.

●ネクタイに指をからめてもてあそぶ play one's necktie through one's fingers

・鉛筆をもてあそぶ toy with a pencil

・言葉をもてあそぶ play with words.

●彼女はテーブルのナプキン･リングをもてあそびながら話をした. She fiddled with the napkin ring on the table as she talked to me.

2 〔慰み物にする〕 sport [toy, trifle, fool] 《with…》; make sport [a plaything, a fool] 《of…》.

●人の気持ちをもてあそぶ play on sb's feelings

・女性の愛情をもてあそぶ play [dally] with a woman's affections

・女をもてあそぶ toy [trifle] with a woman

・男をもてあそぶ flirt with a man; twist [turn] a man round one's (little) finger

・男にもてあそばれる fall prey to a man's lust; be seduced by a man

・運命にもてあそばれる be the puppet [a plaything] of fate; be the sport of fortune

・波にもてあそばれる toss about in [be at the mercy of] the waves.