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貧乏 |
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| binbou | びんぼう | |
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| poverty, destitute, poor | |
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貧乏暇なしですよ。
binbō hima nashi desu yo. Poor men have no leisure. |
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貧乏だけれど彼は幸福だ。
binbō da keredo kare wa kōfuku da. Poor as he is, he is happy. |
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貧乏は彼女の性に合わない。
binbō wa kanojo no sei ni awa nai. Poverty is alien to her nature. |
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貧乏であることを恥じるな。
binbō de aru koto o hajiru na. Don't be ashamed of being poor. |
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裕福な人も貧乏人も死を恐れる。
yūfuku na hito mo binbōnin mo shi o osoreru. The rich and the poor are afraid of death. |
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貧乏にもピンからキリまである。
binbō ni mo pin kara kiri made aru. You say "poor", but there are many degrees of poverty. |
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貧乏は、ある意味で、天の恵みだ。
binbō wa, aru imi de, ten no megumi da. Poverty is, in a sense, a blessing. |
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貧乏な人こそもっとも若く死んだ。
binbō na hito koso mottomo wakaku shin da. It was the poor who died youngest. |
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貧乏のため彼は学校に通えなかった。
binbō no tame kare wa gakkō ni kayoe nakatta. Poverty prevented him from attending school. |
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貧乏な人たちを見下してはいけない。
binbō na hito tachi o mikudashi te wa ike nai. Don't look down on the poor. |
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貧乏でなければその車を買うのだが。
binbō de nakere ba sono kuruma o kau no da ga. I would buy the car, but I am poor. | If I weren't poor, I'd buy that car. |
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貧乏だからといって他人を軽蔑するな。
binbō da kara to itte tanin o keibetsu suru na. Don't despise others because they are poor. |
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貧乏であることを恥ずかしいと思わない。
binbō de aru koto o hazukashī to omowa nai. I'm not ashamed that I am poor. | I think being poor is nothing to be ashamed of. |
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貧乏は苦痛であるが、不名誉なことはない。
binbō wa kutsū de aru ga, fumeiyo na koto wa nai. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. |
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貧乏のせいで彼は盗みを働くようになった。
binbō no sei de kare wa nusumi o hataraku yō ni natta. Poverty drove him to steal. |
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僕はその貧乏な少年になけなしの金を与えた。
boku wa sono binbō na shōnen ni nakenashi no kin o atae ta. I gave the poor boy what little money I had with me. |
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貧乏な人々に食料と衣類を供給しなければならない。
binbō na hitobito ni shokuryō to irui o kyōkyū shi nakere ba nara nai. We must provide food and clothes for the poor. |
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貧乏だけれども、彼は嘘をつくようなことはしない。
binbō da keredomo, kare wa uso o tsuku yō na koto wa shi nai. Though he is very poor, he is above telling a lie. |
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貧乏だからというだけで彼らを軽蔑してはいけない。
binbō da kara to iu dake de karera o keibetsu shi te wa ike nai. Don't look down on them just because they are poor. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |

