► 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:
- 車にはオイル交換やら新しいタイヤやら何やらと沢山維持費がかかる ⇨ There are a lot of maintenance costs involved with cars like oil change, new tires and so on
- 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
- 公園には沢山の桜の木が植わっている ⇨ The park has a lot of cherry trees planted
- 山田氏 ⇨ Mr. Yamada
- 山の半分が噴火で崩れた ⇨ The half of the mountain collapsed by the eruption
- 山火事は10平方キロを焼いた ⇨ The wildfire has burned 10 sqkm
- 今週は来客が沢山あった ⇨ I had a lot of guests this week
- 五百年前の火山噴火の記録が残っている ⇨ There is a record of the volcano eruption 500 years ago
- 日本語には中国語起源の四字熟語が沢山ある ⇨ There are many Chinese-drived four character idioms in Japanese
- 山頂からの景色は素晴らしかった ⇨ The scenery viewed from the mountain peak was fantastic
- 山間部に住む人達 ⇨ People living in the middle of mountains
- 問題が山積みだ ⇨ Problems are piling up
- 登山には常に危険が伴う ⇨ Mountain climbing always involves, comes with, inherent danger
- 山火事が激しく燃え盛っている ⇨ The wildfire is burning out of control
- 山火事で付近の人は皆避難した ⇨ Everybody in the area evacuated due to a wildfire