hairshirt

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhɛəʃɜːt/

名詞

比喩的用法

A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent. / (figuratively) A state of penitence and humility.

日本語の意味

苦行着、または苦行者が身に着ける粗末な衣服としての意味。 / 比喩的に、懺悔や謙遜、自己懲罰の状態を指す意味。

英語の意味

A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent. / (figuratively) A state of penitence and humility.

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The monk wore a hairshirt throughout Lent as an act of penance.

その修道士は受難節の間、懺悔として毛織物で作られたシャツを着ていた。

詳細

意味（1）

A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent.

He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer’s peas. He wears a hairshirt winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday.

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意味（2）

(figuratively) A state of penitence and humility.

And when he went on to say, “The curse must be within ourselves,” Muir bequeathed us a hairshirt: the guilty conscience that plagues so many of us when we see what we are doing to the rest of nature.

詳細

hairshirts （ plural ）