► 名詞
事件 [(1)じけん] meaning: incident rank: 1
☆ その事件が両国間の戦争のきっかけとなった ⇨ The incident triggered the war between the two countries
☆ 爆弾テロ事件が頻発した ⇨ Multiple terrorist bombing incidents have happened in succession
☆ 警察はその殺人事件を捜査している ⇨ The police is investigating the murder case
More examples:
- その二つの事件には何の関係も無い ⇨ Those two incidents have nothing to do with each other
- その事件から二十年が経った ⇨ 20 years have passed since the incident
- 事件は闇に葬られた ⇨ The incident was buried in the darkness, swept under the rug
- 事件の後日談 ⇨ An anecdote of the incident revealed later
- 似たような事件が続けて起こった ⇨ Similar incidents happened in a row
- 最近学校の構内で盗難事件が相次いでいる ⇨ Recently there have been many theft incidents on the school premises
- それ以来似たような事件は一度も起こっていない ⇨ Similar incidents haven’t happened since then
- 事件を起こした張本人は全く平気な顔をしている ⇨ The very person who caused the problem is acting as if nothing has happened
- 強姦殺人事件 ⇨ A rape-murder case
- 事件の件名 ⇨ The name of the incident
- その事件は未だ記憶に新しい ⇨ That incident is still new, fresh, to our memory
- 彼にはこの事件の責任は無い ⇨ He’s not responsible, at fault, for this incident
- その事件が引き金になって軍事紛争が起こった ⇨ That incident triggered a military conflict
- テロ事件の背後にいる国 ⇨ The country that is behind the terrorist attack
- この事件は日本の近代史上重要な位置を占めている ⇨ This incident occupies an important place in the modern Japanese history