live through
live through は英検1級レベルの英単語で、「生き延びる、経験する、切り抜ける」という意味があります。発音記号は /ˈlɪv ˈθruː/ です。
生き延びる
解説 Definition
困難な出来事や長期にわたる辛い経験を乗り越えて生き延びる、あるいは切り抜けるという意味で使う。戦争・災害・病気など重大な経験について述べるときに用いられ、あらゆる時制で使える表現である。
To live through something means to survive a difficult, dangerous, or painful experience and continue living after it. It is often used for wars, accidents, illness, or other hard times. It can also mean experiencing an important period in history.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
live through は live「生きる」+ through「通り抜ける」から、「危険や苦痛の中を通って、なお生きている」と見ると意味がつかみやすいです。war, disaster, illness, accident など、命や生活を脅かす重い出来事と結びつきやすい表現です。単に出来事を見聞きしただけでなく、困難を自分の身で受け止め、最後まで切り抜けて生存した結果まで意識します。
Picture through as going through a dangerous tunnel and still being alive at the end. Live through often appears with hard experiences like a war, a disaster, an illness, or an accident. It suggests surviving the difficulty, not just knowing that it happened.
例文
He lived through the war as a child in the countryside.
彼は子どものころ田舎でその戦争を生き延びた。
She lived through three surgeries last year and is now recovering.
彼女は昨年三度の手術を乗り越え、今は回復している。
経験する
(意味 2)解説 Definition
live through は、時代・出来事・変化などを自分の人生の中で経験することを表す。特に長く続く状況や歴史的な出来事を、当事者として見聞きしながら過ごしたという文脈で使われる。
Live through means to experience a period, event, or major change as part of your own life. It is often used for long situations or important historical events that someone saw and went through personally. This phrase can suggest more than simply knowing about something; it gives the feeling of having spent time in that reality. In this sense, the focus is on personal experience, not only on surviving danger.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
live は「生きる」、through は「通り抜けて」。live through は、ある出来事や時代の中を人生として通過するイメージから「経験する」と考えると覚えやすいです。experience より、長い期間や大きな社会的変化を実際に生きて見てきた感じが出ます。別義の「生き延びる」は危険を越えて命が残る点が中心なので、ここでは命の危機よりも体験・時代背景に注目します。
Think of live as "be alive" and through as "pass through." If you live through something, you pass through that event or period as part of your life. This gives a stronger feeling than experience when talking about a long time or a big social change that someone personally saw and felt. In this meaning, focus on living in that time, not just surviving a dangerous situation.
例文
My grandparents lived through the war and still remember those years clearly.
祖父母はその戦争を実際に経験し、今でもその年月をはっきり覚えている。
People who lived through the economic crisis became much more careful with money.
その経済危機を経験した人々は、お金の扱いにずっと慎重になった。
She lived through a time of rapid social change and watched the city transform completely.
彼女は急速な社会変化の時代を経験し、その町が大きく変わるのを見てきた。
切り抜ける
(意味 3)解説 Definition
困難な時期や大きな出来事を、当事者として経験しながら最後まで通り抜けるときに使う。単にその場にいただけでなく、苦労や変化に向き合って過ごしたという含みがある。人だけでなく会社や地域社会についても同様に言える。
"Live through" means to experience a very difficult period or major event and make it to the end of it. It suggests that you were not just present, but that you faced the pain, change, or danger directly while continuing with your life. It is often used for wars, disasters, illness, trauma, or hard times in business or society.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
live through は live「生きる」に through「通り抜ける」を重ねた形で、「つらい出来事の中を、生きたまま最後まで通過する」と置くと残りやすいです。survive が結果として生き残ることに寄りやすいのに対し、live through は war, disaster, trauma, illness などを実際に経験しながら切り抜けた感触が強め。live through a war / the recession のような名詞との組み合わせで覚えるとよく、単に課題を終える get through と混同しないのがコツです。
Think of live through as live + through: you stay alive and pass all the way through something hard. This gives a stronger feeling of personally experiencing a war, disaster, trauma, or illness than survive, which often focuses more on the final result. It helps to remember common patterns like live through a war or live through the recession, and not confuse it with get through.
例文
She lived through the war as a child and still remembers the fear.
彼女は子どものころに戦争を切り抜け、今でもその恐怖を覚えている。
The company managed to live through the recession without cutting all its staff.
その会社は全 कर्मचार์を減らし切ることなく不況を切り抜けた。
People who have lived through a serious illness often see life differently afterward.
重い病気を切り抜けた人は、その後の人生の見方が変わることが多い。
live through の語源・成り立ち Etymology
liveは古英語libban(生きる)、throughは古英語þurh(通り抜けて)から。困難や危機を「通り抜けて生きる」が原義。関連語にlively(活発な)、thorough(徹底的な＝完全に通り抜ける)がある。
This phrasal verb combines live, from Old English libban, and through, from Old English thurh, meaning "from one side to the other." The basic image is surviving by passing through danger, hardship, or a difficult period. Related English words include lively and thorough, which comes from the idea of going fully through something.
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