► 名詞
命 [(1)いのち] [liter] meaning: important rank: 1
☆ 声は歌手の命だ ⇨ Voice is the life, single most important thing, for a singer
命 [(1)いのち] meaning: life rank: 1
☆ 彼はあと一ヶ月の命だ ⇨ He has one month left to live
☆ 戦争で多くの命が失われた ⇨ Many lives are lost in the war
命 [(1)いのち] [命を落とす] meaning: life rank: 1
☆ 彼は他を助けようとして命を落とした ⇨ He lost his life while trying to save others
More examples:
- 産業革命 ⇨ The industrial revolution
- 彼は社会的使命と個人の幸せの間で苦悩している ⇨ He is struggling between the social mission and his personal happiness
- ちなみに今日はフランスの革命記念日です ⇨ By the way today is an anniversary of French revolution
- 首相は自衛隊の被災地への出動を命じた ⇨ The prime minister ordered the military to be deployed at the disaster area
- 会社は公害の被害者に対して補償することを命じられた ⇨ The company was ordered to compensate to the victim of the pollution
- 新製品の失敗が会社の命運を決定づけた ⇨ The failure of the new product sealed the fate of the company
- 彼は何でも命令口調だ ⇨ He always talks like issuing a command, bossy
- 私は生命保険に加入した ⇨ I’ve joined, bought, a life insurance
- 独裁者は新型兵器の開発を厳命した ⇨ The dictator made a strict order to develop a new weapon
- 彼は切腹することを命じられた ⇨ He was ordered to kill himself by seppuku
- 彼は上部の命令を無視した ⇨ He ignored an order from the higher-ups
- その計画は資金不足が致命傷となった ⇨ The fatal wound, undoing, of the project was a lack of fund
- 昨日が祖母の命日だった ⇨ Yesterday was the anniversary of my grandmother’s passing
- 彼は法廷に出頭することを命じられた ⇨ He was ordered to appear in court
- 余りの恐怖で寿命が縮まった ⇨ My lifespan got shorter because of the big scare. It took years off my life