Word · 単語
抱く
Reading だく
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby)
- 1 to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby), to embrace, to hug
- 2 to have sex with, to make love to, to sleep with
- 3 to sit on (eggs), to brood
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例文 · examples
心に抱いた意志とともに。
Willing mind is what I have found at last.
sense 2 · to have sex with
赤ん坊はやさしく抱きなさい。
Hold the baby gently.
sense 1 · to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby)
少年よ、大志を抱け。
Boys, be ambitious.
子供たちよ大志をいだけ。
Be ambitious, children.
彼は大望を抱いていた。
He had ambition.