English Dictionary

boys will be boys

ことわざ

It is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys. / Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish at heart.

日本語の意味

男の子の成長過程における自然な遊び心やいたずらな性質は、しばしば制御しようとしても無駄であるという意味です。 / 大人になった後も、内面には少年時代の軽快さや無邪気さが残っていることを示す意味です。

After finding mud tracks in the kitchen and a missing piñata, Maria shrugged and said, boys will be boys, accepting that it is often futile to try to curb their mischief.

台所に泥の足跡がありピニャータがなくなっているのを見つけると、マリアは肩をすくめ、成長期の多くの男の子の自然ないたずら心ややんちゃを抑えようとするのはしばしば無駄だと受け止めた。

意味（1）

It is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys.

But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.

意味（2）

Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish at heart.

Boys will be boys, grinned Grandpa as he watched his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he had given his grandson for Christmas.

意味（3）

Predatory behavior of suitors should be viewed as excusable because it comes naturally to many boys and men.

意味（4）

2018, Kilpatrick, Mary, “Why the 'boys will be boys' justification of sexual violence doesn't fly: Comparing Kavanaugh to Steubenville”, in Shatter on Cleveland.com:

意味（5）

It's not hard to see the parallels between the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the 2012 Steubenville rape case. Three decades apart, there is one central difference: Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, and has never been criminally charged. In the Steubenville case, two star football players were convicted of raping a girl, and sentenced to prison. But amid the outrage in both cases, there has been a chorus of "boys will be boys," the excuse of youth, of teenage brains that can't control themselves and the victim shaming that accompanies that perception.