Saturday, June 2, 2018

Japanese Graded Readers 3:1:4: この人だあれ? Part 1: 野口英雄

Some of these I didn't get to the point of certainty on.  Still, this is what I have.

だあれ?   Who's that?
お札     paper money
技術     technology
進んで       advance
偽札     counterfeit money
言われています people say...
野口英雄   Hideo Naguchi, bacteriologist
まま     as it is
すぐ     soon?
貧乏        poverty
使って       use (up?)
しまう    cause
一生懸命   hard, as in hard work
よくなりました improved
囲炉裏                fire pit/sunken hearth    
頃      time of
開かなく      doesn't open.  Can't open? 
負けない      as much as possible/unsurpassably
手術     surgery
頑張って   did a fine job of?
成績     achievement
高等小学校        Some level of school.  Random guy on Internet thinks it's grades 5-8 or 7-8, but the term is no longer used.  "Junior high," I suppose.
出してくれました  took out? NO
ずっと                forever
助けました        helped
生物     living thing
のように   like
試験     test
合格     success
変わった   changed
研究     research
やっと       at last
周り     vicinity
のか?    isn't it?
細菌     bacteria
数年     several/few years
博士     PhD.
一生懸命   with utmost effort
何度     many times
以上     more
いられません can't go
しか     only
黄熱病    yellow fever
調べ     investigation
制回収    recovery (ed: check this)
墓      tomb