► 名詞
山 [(2)やま] meaning: a lot rank: 1
☆ ゴミの山 ⇨ A mountain, pile, of garbage
☆ 仕事が山になっている ⇨ I got a mountain, pile, of work
山 [(2)やま] meaning: mountain rank: 1
☆ 日本には山が多い ⇨ There are many mountains in Japan
山 [(2)やま] meaning: critical rank: 2
☆ 彼の病状はこの二三日が山だ ⇨ His (medical) condition will be decided in the next few days
山 [(2)やま] [山を越える] meaning: critical rank: 2
☆ 仕事は山を越えた ⇨ The work has gone over one mountain, critical point
山 [(2)やま] meaning: guess rank: 3
☆ 試験の山が当たった、外れた ⇨ I anticipated the exam questions correctly, incorrectly
山 [(2)やま] [山を張る] meaning: guess rank: 3
☆ 打者は内角に山を張った ⇨ The batter guessed that the next pitch would be inside
山 [(2)やま] [山を掛ける] meaning: guess rank: 3
☆ 山を掛けた所が試験に出た ⇨ The exam asked the questions I had guessed it would ask. I guessed right
More examples:
- 山男のような風貌の男 ⇨ A man who looks like a lumberjack
- 寒いので沢山着込んだ ⇨ It was cold so I wore a lot
- 犬には沢山種類がある ⇨ There are many kinds of dogs
- 彼は有名な登山家だ ⇨ He is a famous mountaineer
- 東京には海外からの観光客が沢山いる ⇨ There are many overseas tourists in Tokyo
- 地球の表面には岩、土、火山灰等が重なっている ⇨ Rocks, clay, volcano ashes and etc. are layered on the surface of Earth
- 山菜料理 ⇨ Mountain plant dishes
- トラックをぐるぐる走るより山道を走るほうが楽しい ⇨ It is more fun to run mountain roads than go round and round on a track
- この地方は夏に雨が余り降らないので山火事が起こりやすい ⇨ Wildfires are common in this area because it doesn’t rain much in the summer
- 火山の噴火を誰も予期していなかった ⇨ Nobody was expecting the eruption of the volcano
- 背景にある山 ⇨ The mountain in the background
- 有名人が死ぬと悲しがる人達が沢山いる ⇨ There will be many grieving people when a celebrity dies
- 山奥の部落 ⇨ A hamlet deep in the mountain
- 沢山のスター歌手達が舞台を飾った ⇨ Many star singers appeared on the stage
- 山火事で十人が焼死した ⇨ 10 people burned to death in the wild fire