► 名詞
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: group rank: 1
☆ 彼等は人生の勝ち組だ (かちぐみ) ⇨ They are winners in life
☆ 私達は二つの組に分かれた ⇨ We broke up into two groups (☛ Typically a group of people with similar characteristics, but not with common goals or leadership)
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: pair rank: 1
☆ 五組の夫婦 ⇨ Five pairs of husband and wife
☆ 男女が組になって踊る踊り ⇨ A dance for a pair of man and woman
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: set rank: 1
☆ 組のテーブルと椅子を買った ⇨ I bought a set of table and chairs
組 [(2)くみ] meaning: gang rank: 4
☆ 山口組は日本最大の暴力団だ ⇨ Yamaguchi-clan is the largest gang in Japan
☆ 組の掟 ⇨ The mafia codes
More examples:
- 会社は組合の要求を受け入れざるを得なくなった形だ ⇨ In the end the company had to accept the union’s demands
- 組合は断固として要求を取り下げない ⇨ The union adamantly refuses to retract their demands
- 作業員がエンジンを組み立てている ⇨ Workers are assembling engines
- 下部組織 ⇨ A lower-level, subsidiary, organization
- 彼はエンジンを車に組み込んだ ⇨ He mounted the engine into the car
- 地下組織 ⇨ An underground organization
- このテレビ番組は御覧の各社の提供でお送り致します ⇨ This TV program is sponsored by the companies you are seeing now
- 会社は組合と賃金について交渉している ⇨ The company is negotiating with the union on their wages
- チームは試合前に円陣を組んだ ⇨ The players of the team made a circle before the game
- 結合組織 ⇨ Connective tissue
- 今後の社会の問題に既存の制度の枠組みの中で対応するのには限界がある ⇨ There is a limit in what we can do if we have to deal with the issues in tomorrow’s society within the existing framework
- 古い街の細く入り組んだ路地 ⇨ The narrow, complex alleys of the old town
- 飛行機代を五万円と見て予算を組んだ ⇨ I set up my budget assuming the flights would cost ¥50K
- 組織内にスパイがいると言われて彼はぎくっとした ⇨ He jumped, reacted, when he was told there was a spy in the organization
- 組長が子分達に命令した ⇨ The gang boss gave an order to his men