Word · 単語
生死
Reading せいし
life and death
- 1 life and death, life or death
- 2 samsara (cycle of death and rebirth)
- 3 death
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
それはいわば生死の問題だ。
It is, as it were, a life and death problem.
sense 1 · life and death
彼は生死の境をさ迷った。
He hovered between life and death.
sense 1 · life and death
その戦いは生死を賭けた戦いのようであった。
That fight seemed like a life-or-death struggle.
sense 1 · life and death
彼は自分の生死をかけて、おぼれかけた少年を救った。
He saved the drowning boy at the risk of his own life.
sense 1 · life and death