English Dictionary

Lazarus

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlæzəɹəs/

名詞

比喩的用法 通常

(usually figuratively) A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected. / A poor person, a beggar.

日本語の意味

死んでいたが蘇生した人（通常は比喩的に用いられる表現） / 貧乏人、物乞い

After his accident, everyone called him a Lazarus when he returned to work months later.

事故の後、数か月ぶりに職場に戻った彼を、みんなは死からよみがえった人のようだと呼んだ。

意味（1）

(usually figuratively) A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected.

This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed.

意味（2）

A poor person, a beggar.

And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom?

Lazaruses （ plural ）