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偉い (えらい) - N2 vocabulary
great,celebrated,eminent,terrible,awful,famous,remarkable,excellent
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- あの偉い坊さんを見ろよ。 Look at the big shot.
- あの会社はみんなお偉いさんの肩書きばかりで、船頭多くて船進まずだ。 Everybody in that company is either a vice-president or a senior vice-president; they're all chiefs and no Indians.
- 偉い人は身なりを気にしない。 A great man doesn't care about his appearance.
- 君は偉いことをやったね。 You've done it!
- 自分を偉い者だと思っている。 He thinks himself to be somebody.
- 昔１人の偉い王様が住んでいた。 Once there lived a great king.
- 大きくなったら、偉い人になりたい。 I want to be somebody when I grow up.
- 彼はあんなに若くして死ななかったら、偉い学者になっていただろうに。 If he had not died so young, he would have become a great scientist.
- 彼は偉い学者で、さらによいことには、良い先生だ。 He is a great scholar, and, what is better, a good teacher.
- 彼は会社をくびになったんだけど、わざわい転じて福となすで、見事独立したから偉いよ。 His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
- 彼は自分では偉いつもりでいるが、実際はとるに足らぬ人だ。 He thinks he is somebody, but really he is nobody.
