N2706/1725

歯は車ぐるま

nounnoun (generic)

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はぐるま

Meanings

gear, cogwheel
cog (in an organization, company, etc.), cog in the machine

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Example sentences

この機械きかいの歯車はぐるまが壊こわれてしまった。

The gear of this machine has broken.

二ふたつの歯車はぐるまがうまく噛かみ合あっている。

The two gears are meshing together well.

彼かれは大企業だいきぎょうの歯車はぐるまの一ひとつに過すぎないと感かんじていた。

He felt that he was nothing more than a cog in a large corporation.

歯車はぐるまが正ただしく回転かいてんしないと、装置そうち全体ぜんたいが止とまってしまう。

If the gears do not rotate correctly, the entire device will stop.

社会しゃかいという巨大きょだいな機構きこうの中なかで、個人こじんはただの歯車はぐるまとして機能きのうしているに過すぎないという見方みかたもある。

There is also a view that within the vast machinery of society, individuals function as nothing more than cogs.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)