► 名詞
最近 [さいきん] meaning: recent rank: 1
☆ その事はつい最近まで知らなかった ⇨ I didn’t knew about it until very recently
☆ 最近どうも疲れが取れない ⇨ Recently I can’t get rid of fatigue
☆ 最近の若者 ⇨ Today’s young people
☆ 最近買った服 ⇨ The clothe I bought recently (☛ The other day)
More examples:
- 最近の大学は低質な博士を濫造している ⇨ Colleges nowadays are mass producing low quality PhD’s
- 最近交通事故が減った ⇨ Traffic accidents have decreased recently
- 最近の活躍で彼の株は大きく上がった ⇨ His stock has risen tremendously because of his recent performance
- 彼は最近元気が無い ⇨ Recently he doesn’t have energy, he seems depressed
- 最近すぐに疲れる ⇨ Recently I get tired easily
- 最近はシャツの裾を出して着ることが多くなってきた ⇨ Recently many people leave their shirt hems out, wear their shirts untucked
- 癌は最近は早い時期に治療すれば治ることが多い ⇨ Nowadays cancer can be cured in many cases when treated during the early period
- 最近の映画は大衆に受けることしか狙っていない ⇨ The movies nowadays are only trying to please the mass
- 最近は多くの食品が冷凍されている ⇨ Nowadays many foods are frozen
- 最近この病気の患者数の増加が見られる ⇨ Recently the increase of the number of patients of this disease has been observed
- 最近は似たような女優ばっかりだ ⇨ Nowadays there are full of actresses who look similar
- 最近物価が下がった ⇨ Recently the consumer price has gone down
- 彼は最近副職が忙しくなってきて本職に差し支えるようになってきた ⇨ His side-job has gotten busy enough to interfere with his main job
- 最近やたらと疲れる ⇨ I’ve been so tired lately
- 一時期世間を騒がせた彼女は最近すっかり鳴りを潜めている ⇨ She who used to cause a lot of controversies has been very quite recently