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► 名詞
  [(2)まき]    meaning:  book  rank: 3
☆ ハリーポッター最初の巻を読んだ ⇨ I read the first book of Harry Potter  (☛ Originally referred to a book on a scroll)

  [(2)まき]    meaning:  roll  rank: 3
☆ 巻き寿司 ⇨ Roll sushi

► 接尾辞
  [(1)かん]    meaning:  volume  rank: 3
☆ 百科事典の第一巻 ⇨ The volume one of an encyclopedia


More examples:
  • にはいつも取巻きがぞろぞろついてまわる ⇨ Entourages always follow him in droves
  • がとぐろを巻いている ⇨ A snake is wound up
  • 理屈持ち出してに巻こうとした ⇨ He tried to confuse me with a weird logic
  • その小説上中下の三巻にかれている ⇨ That novel is broken into three volumes of the first, middle and last
  • 政界には陰謀が渦巻いている ⇨ Conspiracies are swirling in the political world
  • の昆布巻き ⇨ Chicken kelp wraps
  • 谷翔平メジャーリーグ旋風を巻き起こした ⇨ Shohei Otani became a whirlwind, big sensation, in MLB
  • 彼女見事包丁さばきにはを巻いた ⇨ I rolled my tongue, was quite impressed, by the deftness of the way she uses kitchen knives
  • 彼女は巻き毛をしている ⇨ She has curly hair
  • 陰謀に巻き込まれた ⇨ He was drawn into a conspiracy
  • 獲物に巻き付いた ⇨ A snake wound itself around its prey
  • ビートルズ世界を席巻した ⇨ The Beatles swept through the world
  • くの民間人戦闘の巻き添えで死亡した ⇨ Many civilians caught in the crossfire of the battle and died
  • は葉巻をくゆらせている ⇨ He is smoking a cigar (so that smoke plumes up)
  • 彼女中年かしてを巻き上げた ⇨ She manipulated a middle-aged man and swindled him of money