► 名詞
戦 [いくさ] [arch] meaning: war rank: 3
☆ 腹が減っては戦ができぬ ⇨ You cannot fight a war when you are hungry (☛ A common proverb which means you cannot do things well when you are not prepared)
More examples:
- 関ケ原の合戦 ⇨ The battle of Sekigahara
- 戦闘機は空母に帰着した ⇨ The fighter jet returned to the carrier
- 敗戦の色が濃厚だ ⇨ The color of a loss is dark. It looks like we are losing the game
- 彼は腐敗と戦っている ⇨ He is fighting with, against, corruptions
- F16が米国軍の現在の主力戦闘機だ ⇨ F16’s are the current mainstay fighter jets of US military
- 戦国時代には多くの武将が天下を取ろうと戦った ⇨ During the Japanese war period many warlords fought to rule the world, country
- 真綿で首を絞めるような作戦 ⇨ A strategy like strangling with cotton
- 侵略戦争 ⇨ A war of invasion
- 米国の中東戦略 ⇨ The Middle East strategy of US
- 試合は手に汗握る大接戦になった ⇨ The game became an edge-of-the-seat thriller
- 日本は第二次大戦後民主化された ⇨ Japan was democratized after WW2
- 相手が怪我で辞退したので彼は不戦勝した (ふせんしょう) ⇨ He won without playing, by default, because the opponent had withdrawn with injury
- 日本は大戦を契機に大きく変わった ⇨ Japan changed significantly with the WW2 as the turning point
- 戦争は持久戦になった ⇨ The war has become a battle of endurance, attrition
- 彼等は思い切った作戦を使った ⇨ They employed a daring strategy