All I can find out isseasurfer said:Can anyone kindly tell me what is the meaning of かく戦えり。？I only know that it is something related to war...but I can't figure out the meaning, because I can't find this word in the dictionary. Thanks in advance.
それで、別々に「へ真っすぐに入って来る」「みつばちがー直線に飛ぶことから」問ういう風に使う場合もあるかもしれないけどの。 意味に「動線を描いて」は要らないそうです。wakaP said:英文を見ると，実際に線が描かれているような表現となっていますが，これは比喩ですか？
元の「真っすぐな一直線の動線を描いて」はたとえです（metaphorical expression）.
動線は「人や物が移動する軌跡や方向などを示した線」なので，
traceという表現が最も適切だと思います。
同じ意味ということであれば，
He entered on the straight. ダメかな
It's better put in the negative. "No ordinary thing can ...."Elizabeth said:I'm just confounded at the moment by 並大抵のことで体が. My body won't be broken by ordinary things -- such as what could he be thinking of ? :?
That makes sense. It's just such an uncommon construction, particularly without the は and the passive 壊れることがありません (it is never broken?).PaulTB said:It's better put in the negative. "No ordinary thing can ...."
このような苦しいときには、並大抵のことでは、会社の赤字をなくすことはできない。
In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.
*moan*PaulTB said:Hmm, ダメだと思います。
Thank you.PaulTB said:A loose translation would be "He entered, making a bee-line for the ___"
かく戦えり is an old-fashioned way of このように戦った ( fighted in this way)。seasurfer said:Can anyone kindly tell me what is the meaning of かく戦えり ？
wakaP said:Is 'making a bee-line for the XXX' commonly used for '一直線に' ?
"There is no breaking of ..." is over literal but I think gets the idea across.Elizabeth said:and the passive 壊れることがありません (it is never broken?).
明日の平和があればいいのさ。seasurfer said:But I am still not sure of the meaning of いいのさ in this sentence, how am I going to fit the meaning in?
PaulTB said:明日の平和があればいいのさ。
How about
"Well, it'll be good if tommorrow is peaceful."
It says "My owner buys mats with characters on that he can't read."puKKa said:could someone translate what the mat in my room says?
puKKa said:I would also like to know what Kokuei Yami would look like in kanji etc.
seasurfer said:Then what does いいのさ means here? Is there anyway to put it in the English way, so I can understand it better?
puKKa said:It could be chinese too I don't know got it in christmas present.
yeah, almost picked them out of a hat ^^ just wanted some cool words so I took them, can you "connect" them so that they gain a meaning? I was also thinking if you could have it as a alias ^^
PaulTB said:You know いい = good, OK etc
so it's only sentences ending in のさ that you have to worry about.
So here's a bunch more example sentences to consider.
いやあ、家族は留守だし、あんまりたいしたことは出来ないのさ。
Well, my family's away and I can't afford to do much.
おとうさんが言う事なんて気にしないでいいのさ。
Don't pay any attention to what he says.
きみを一目見た時からぞっこん一目惚れなのさ。
I've loved you from the moment I saw you.
そうさハイハイハイハイ風を感じる事もできるのさ。
Oh, now I feel the wind blow hi, hi, hi, hi.
そこでジョ・ジョアリゾナはツーソンの家を出て緑なすカルフォルニアへと向かったのさ。
Jo-Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass.
それが親ばかというものさ。
We parents sometimes become blind in loving our children too much.
とうとうフンづかまっちまったのさ。
Of robbin' the homeward bounder.
なに、彼に援助を求めるだけでいいのさ。
Well, you have only to ask for his help.
やっと帰る気になったのさ。
We're goin' home.
アクシデントはあるものさ。
Accidents will happen.
プラプラ油を売っていないで、とっとと仕事にもどったらどうなのさ。
As long as we're all just hanging around chatting may I make a suggestion? Get back to work!
愛は人の心を砕くこともできるのさ。
But love can break your heart.
悪事千里を走るって言うだろう。悪い噂はアッという間に広まっちゃうのさ。
Malicious gossip spreads like wildfire. I guess that's why they say bad news travels fast.
俺たちは９０９の汽車に乗るのさ。
I said we're travelin' on the one after 909.
帰り道で拾ったラジオを修理しているのさ。
I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.
結婚式のことだけどさあ、君の一世一代の晴れの舞台なんだから、地味婚などといわないで、パーッと派手にしたらどうなのさ。
About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction so instead of doing it on a shoestring why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
持っているのさ。
That stretches out ahead.
暑さで一晩中眠れなかったのさ。
The heat kept me awake all night.
人生とはそんなものさ。
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
誰でもおてんとさまを拝めるのさ。
Everybody saw the sunshine.
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puKKa said:first time I've heard the word "Longevity"
thanks
seasurfer said:In East Asian culture (I mean the Kanji users), they like to repeat writing the same character a few times, especially when it comes to these auspicious character, so that it looks more auspicious.
I think you can in the right context. For example I found this off the web.seasurfer said:Can I make a sentence like this:
頭がいいのさ。
Does it makes sense???
puKKa said:yeah, almost picked them out of a hat ^^ just wanted some cool words so I took them, can you "connect" them so that they gain a meaning? I was also thinking if you could have it as a alias ^^
Isn't 'sa' simply a sentence ending particle used mainly by men as a way of emphasizing that sentence (analogous to "Certainly...." or "Clearly") I'm not sure it has a great deal of added nuance with 'no' or without it, except that which 'no' brings.PaulTB said:That's as maybe - but I think you should check the back of the mat for a label to see that it doesn't say "Made in Bristol". Could be somebody just picked three likely looking characters from a selection of "Get your tatoo here" type sites.
I think you can in the right context. For example I found this off the web.
このマシンはあんたよりずっと頭がいいのさ.
Elizabeth said:Isn't 'sa' simply a sentence ending particle used mainly by men as a way of emphasizing that sentence (analogous to "Certainly...." or "Clearly") I'm not sure it has a great deal of added nuance with 'no' or without it, except that which 'no' brings.
PaulTB said:This is just いい + the explanatory の (of のです) + the sentence ending particle さ
With the comment on rules of usage, I basically wanted to clarify there's nothing sacred in 'no sa,' as a unique phrase.PaulTB said:Well if you look waaaay back up this page (or possibly the previous one) you'll see
PaulTB said:Well in which case
Kokuei Yami 国営 闇
Meaning something like 'statemanagement + darkness' ☝
What browser are you using? I recommend Firefox for the Microsoft-phobes Opera and Safari support for Japanese seems to be a bit shakey - especially in dubiously designed web-pages.puKKa said:when I try to copy the kanji and paste it here it only gets like this: ??影
puKKa said:hooh?
when I translated the romaji I got:
kokuei = silhouette; dark shadow
Then the second lesson is not to trust JquickTranspuKKa said:When I inputtd kokuei in JquickTrans I got it translated to:
silhouette, dark shadow
Yes. But that doesn't imply anything.puKKa said:, and when writing kokuei I cant choose anything other than 国営 but I can chose there too: こくえい(hiragana right?) and コクエイ(katakana right?).