目を凝らす

• 読み: めをこらす
• ローマ字: me wo korasu
• 漢字の分解: 目 (moku/me) — eye; 凝 (gyō/ko) — to congeal, to concentrate, to strain
• 発音: /me.o.ko.ɾa.sɯ/

意味

To strain one's eyes; to stare intently; to peer closely at something difficult to see.

A set phrase using 凝らす (to concentrate intensely, to strain). The verb 凝らす means to focus or fix intensely on something — 目を凝らす directs that intense gaze toward an object that is hard to see, whether due to darkness, distance, or small size. Common in literary descriptions and tense or suspenseful situations.

例文

1. 暗闇に目を凝らしても何も見えなかった。
2. 彼は小さな文字に目を凝らして読み続けた。
3. 目を凝らすと遠くに小さな灯台が見えてきた。

使い方ガイド

場面: literature, suspense, observation, daily life

トーン: tense

起源と歴史

From 凝らす (to harden, to concentrate) combined with 目 (eye). 凝らす originally means to make something dense or fixed; in this compound it expresses the intense focusing and fixing of one's gaze.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal