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Job 仕事【しごと】Japanese Lesson #109

真面目まじめ仕事しごとをしないサカモトは降格処分こうかくしょぶんになり、部屋へやすみいやられてしまった。

Sakamoto, who doesn’t take his work seriously, was demoted and shoved into a corner of the room.

 

→これも真面目まじめ仕事しごとをしているようにはえない。

This also doesn’t look like he’s taking his work seriously

 

Vocab Breakdown

真面目に仕事をする(まじめにしごとをする):to take one’s work seriously

降格処分になる(こうかくしょぶんになる):to be demoted (at work)

部屋の隅(へやのすみ):corner of a room

追いやられる(おいやられる):this verb basically means “to be forced into x or to be driven to x” both in the literally sense and figurative. Obviously this sentence uses the literal meaning of the word. It can be used like “forced out of business” or “brought to the brink of destruction” and stuff like that.

 

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英単語チェック

take one’s work seriously : 真面目に仕事をする

be / get demoted : 降格処分になる

corner of a room : 部屋の隅

shoved into: 押し込まれる ・・・隅に追いやるなどの場合はこの表現を使います

=forced into / driven to : 追いやられる(一般的にはこちら)

 

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