► 名詞
抜き [(1)ぬき] meaning: without rank: 1
☆ 今日は昼御飯抜きで働いた ⇨ Today I skipped lunch and kept working
☆ 個人的感情は抜きにして考えて下さい ⇨ Please think about it without your personal feelings
☆ 儲かるかどうかは抜きにしてもやる価値があると思う ⇨ I think it is worth doing it whether we make money or not
☆ 冗談は抜きにして本当にガス腹で苦しい ⇨ I am not joking, I am really struggling with gassy stomach
抜き [ぬき] meaning: pass rank: 2
☆ 彼は最後の一周で五人抜きして優勝した ⇨ He passed five others in the final lap and won the race
More examples:
- 冗談抜きで本当にまずいことになっているよ ⇨ Seriously, we’re really in trouble
- 抜きつ抜かれつの大接戦 ⇨ A dog fight where one overtakes another and then one is overtaken by another over and over
- あいつが手抜きをしたせいで事故が起こった ⇨ The accident happened because he had cut corners
- 手抜きをするな ⇨ Don’t cut corners
- 彼の手抜きのせいでこんなことになって何とも腹立たしい ⇨ It is extremely annoying that we are in this hole because he cut corners
- 彼女は一冊の本を本棚から抜き取った ⇨ She pull, took, out one book from the bookshelf
- 彼等は完成を急ぐ余り手抜きをした ⇨ They were in such a hurry to complete the work, they cut corners
- 彼の手抜きを私が批判すると彼は逆上した ⇨ When I criticised his cutting corners, he became very hostile
- 彼女は十人をごぼう抜きした ⇨ She passed ten other runners
- 彼は会社の監査機構を骨抜きにした ⇨ He removed the skeletons from the audit system of the company, made it powerless
- 手抜き工事のために建物は倒壊した ⇨ The building collapsed because of negligence in construction
- 彼は先頭の走者を抜き去った ⇨ He overtook the leading runner (and left him in the dust)
- 新聞の記事の切り抜き ⇨ A cutout of a newspaper article
- 彼等は工場ラインから製品を幾つか抜き出して検査した ⇨ They (randomly) picked up some products from the factory line and checked
- 勝ち抜き戦の組み合わせが決まった ⇨ The matchups of the knockout stage have been set