釣り合う: 8 Terms and Phrases

• 釣り合う
• to balance
• to be in harmony
• to suit
• to go well together
• to counterbalance
• to reach equilibrium
• matching

• ～と釣り合う
• correspond to ~

• 良く釣り合う人
• match

• 別の重さと釣り合う重り
• a weight that balances another weight

• 2つのものが釣り合うようにすること
• getting two things to correspond

• 磁化がそれに適用される磁場の強さと釣り合う物質でできている磁石
• magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it

• 義経が「ちょうど下手を引く者がいないから（自分の身分に釣り合う者がいない）」と言って断ると、次のように激しく叱責。
• When Yoshitsune refused to do it, saying, 'At this moment there is no packhorse driver,' Yoritomo fiercely accused him saying as follows.

• やまと言葉としての「しつらい」の「し」は「為（し）」で「する」という意であり、「つらい」は「つれあう」や「つりあう」の意で、その時々の情況に応じて「連れ合う」あるいは「釣り合う」ように「する」ことだという。
• It is said that the word 'Shitsurai' used as yamato-kotoba (words intrinsically used in Japan), the letter 'shi' is '為' (shi) which means 'do,' the letter 'tsurai' means 'keeping company with' or 'being balanced with,' and consequently, it means 'to do' 'keeping company with' or 'being balanced with' in accordance with the situation.