► 名詞
差 [さ] meaning: different rank: 1
☆ 先頭と二番の差は10秒だ ⇨ The gap between the leader and the second is 10 seconds
☆ 日本のサッカーと世界の差は縮まったといっても未だかなりある ⇨ The gap between Japanese soccer and the world has shrunk but is still significant
差 [さ] [差を付ける] meaning: different rank: 1
☆ 彼女は他に大きな差をつけて優勝した ⇨ She won with a large margin against the rest
☆ 彼等は客が高い方を選ぶようにわざの内容に差をつけている ⇨ They are differentiating the contents on purpose so that customers will choose the expensive one
More examples:
- 彼等は少数民族を差別した ⇨ They discriminated against the ethnic minorities
- 彼等は人種差別と苦闘している ⇨ They are struggling against racism
- この交差点はよく事故が起こる ⇨ Accidents frequently happen in this intersection
- 人種差別 ⇨ Racial discrimination
- 誤差は許容範囲内だ ⇨ The inaccuracy is within the tolerance
- 彼は人生の分かれ道に差し掛かった ⇨ He came to crossroads of life
- 人種差別問題が議題に取り上げられた ⇨ Racism was picked up as a topic of discussion
- 阪神は巨人を2ゲーム差で追っている ⇨ Hanshin is chasing Giants with a 2-game break
- 彼等は後半猛烈に追い上げたが、惜しくも一点差で破れた ⇨ They came back furiously in the second half but unfortunately lost by one score
- 真夏のきつい日差し ⇨ Glaring summer sunlight
- 立体交差 ⇨ Grade separation
- 彼が万引をするなんて、魔が差したとしか思えない ⇨ I think the only explanation is he must’ve had a moment of madness to shoplift
- 日差しが強い ⇨ The sunlight is glaring
- 経費を差し引くと残十万円になった ⇨ After subtracting the expenses, the remainder is ¥100K
- 文書の中の図が間違っていたので差し替えた ⇨ I exchanged the chart in the document because it was a wrong one