-どころか
1 〈まったく反対に〉 far from; not at all
句例
それどころか far from it; on the contrary
文例
清流どころかまるでどぶ川だった. Far from being a clear stream, it was little better than an open sewer.
そんなことをしたら信用を得るどころか, 人から見下げられるよ. If you do that sort of thing, instead of giving you credit for it, people will simply despise you.
2 〈…は言うに及ばず〉 not to speak of; to say nothing of; let alone
文例
彼はフランス語どころか英語も知らない. He knows no English, to say nothing of French.
体が弱って, 走るどころか歩けもしない. He is too weak to walk, let alone run.
New College Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th edition (C) Kenkyusha Ltd. 1933,1995,1998 |