Meaning of 訳 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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訳JLPT 4
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Kana Readingわけ
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Romajiwake
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
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Example Sentences
訳, わけ used in context
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営業マンだって、リストラ予備軍に配属されないように必死な訳です。
After all, even salesmen are desperate to avoid being targeted for downsizing.
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人が肉体を持ち、地上に生まれたからといって、地上のことを全て理解するわけではないのと同様に、死んだからといって霊的世界を全て理解しているわけでもないのです。
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
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今、基本的な分詞構文を教えているのですが、皆さんは以下の分詞構文の訳については、どのように異なる訳し方をされますか？
I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?
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ワタシは背が低いので棚の上まで見られないのでほぼ手探りで拭くわけです。
I'm short, so I can't see on top of the shelves and so I pretty much dust by touch.
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あたしも賛成だから、三対一ね。というわけで、ハルカの反対意見は却下されました。
I'm also in favour so it's three to one. And thus your objection is overruled.
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So now there are at least 20 rainbow trout in this area.
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