► 名詞
局 [(1)きょく] meaning: department rank: 3
☆ 米国連邦捜査局 ⇨ US Federal Bureau of Investigation
More examples:
- 彼の局部にボールが当たった ⇨ The ball hit him in the nether regions
- 近所の薬局 ⇨ A drug store in my neighborhood
- 我々は何とか難局を乗り切った ⇨ We somehow managed through difficult circumstances
- 彼は諜報局に入局した ⇨ He joined the intelligence agency
- 政局は混迷している ⇨ The political landscape is in a chaos
- あの客は何足も靴を試した挙げ句、結局何も買わなかった ⇨ That customer tried on so many shoes, and in the end didn’t buy anything
- 端折ると後で結局ツケが回ってくる ⇨ If you cut corners you will have to pay the price later
- 折角買ったのに結局使わなかった ⇨ Even though I bought it, I didn’t end up using it
- 試合は二回の延長の後、結局引き分けに終わった ⇨ After two overtimes, the game ended in a tie
- 政府の息が掛かったテレビ局 ⇨ A TV station under the influence of the government
- 私達は散々議論したが結局同じ結論に帰結した ⇨ We discussed over and over but ended up reaching the same conclusion
- 駅前の郵便局 ⇨ A post office in front of the station
- で、結局どうなったんだ？ ⇨ So, what was the end result?
- 日本人は白人ではない悲しさで結局欧米では差別を受ける ⇨ Japanese still receive discrimination in US and Europe because of the disadvantage of not being whites
- しばらく待ったけれども、結局彼は現れなかった ⇨ I waited for a while, but he didn’t show up in the end