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崩壊 |
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| houkai | ほうかい | |
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| decay (physics), crumbling, breaking down, caving in | |
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チューダー朝は１６０３年に崩壊した。
chūdā asa wa ichi roku zero san nen ni hōkai shi ta. The Tudor Dynasty fell in the year 1603. |
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ベルリンの壁が崩壊したのは１９８９年のことだった。
berurin no kabe ga hōkai shi ta no wa ichi kyū hachi kyū nen no koto datta. It was in 1989 that the Berlin Wall was taken down. | The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. |
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１９３０年代の恐慌の間、多くの金持ちが株式市場の崩壊で全てを失った。
ichi kyū san zero nendai no kyōkō no ma, ōku no kanemochi ga kabushiki shijō no hōkai de subete o ushinatta. During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash. |
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共産主義はソビエト社会主義共和国の政治体制だったが、１９９３年に崩壊した。
kyōsan jugi wa sobieto shakai jugi kyōwa koku no seiji taisei datta ga, ichi kyū kyū san nen ni hōkai shi ta. Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993. |
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人が月面に着陸し、ベルリンでは壁が崩壊し、われわれの科学と想像力によって世界はつながりました。
hito ga getsumen ni chakuriku shi, berurin de wa kabe ga hōkai shi, wareware no kagaku to sōzō ryoku niyotte sekai wa tsunagari mashi ta. A man touched down on the moon. A wall came down in Berlin. A world was connected by our own science and imagination. |
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『カムイの剣』は、1868年の徳川将軍時代の崩壊と、明治天皇下での日本の復興という変革期を舞台にした、一種の侍/忍者物語だ。
' kamui no ken ' wa, 1868 nen no tokugawa shōgun jidai no hōkai to, meijitennō ka de no nippon no fukkō toyū henkakuki o butai ni shi ta, ijju no samurai / ninja monogatari da. Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |
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