プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
やすめる【休める】
❶〔心身を安らかにする〕
あまり働きすぎないで体を休めなさい
Don't work so hard ― take a rest.
頭[眼]を休める
give one's brains [eyes] a rest
肩を休める
relax one's shoulders
心を休める
set one's mind at ease
❷〔…する手を止める〕stop ((doing));〔中断して休息する〕take a rest ((from))
針仕事の手を休めて10分休息を取った
She stopped sewing and took a ten-minute rest./She 「took a rest [rested] from her needlework for ten minutes.
鳥が木の枝で羽を休めている
A bird is sitting on a branch, resting its wings.
❸〔畑を〕lay fallow
1年間畑を休めた
We let the soil [land] lie fallow for a year.