English Dictionary

original sin

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

(Christianity) Adam's disobedience to God. / (Christianity) The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.

日本語の意味

（キリスト教）アダムが神に不服従であったこと、つまりアダムの神への逆らいを指す。 / （キリスト教）アダムの逆らいによって、人間が生まれつき持っている罪深い状態を意味する。

Many theologians argue that original sin explains the persistent presence of suffering and moral failure in the world.

多くの神学者は、原罪（アダムが神に背いたこと）が世界における苦しみや道徳的失敗の持続的存在を説明すると主張している。

意味（1）

(Christianity) Adam's disobedience to God.

意味（2）

(Christianity) The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.

You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get there—largely thanks to newcomer Nanua, who presents her character’s grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness.

意味（3）

(figuratively) The misdeed partially or entirely responsible for all of the similar ones after it.

The dim-wits hardly realize that they come pretty close to accusing God of advocating ritual murder, when they use the Biblical story to prove the “original sin” of the Jews.

original sins （ plural ）