Meaning
通俗的 (つうぞくてき, tsuuzokuteki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “common; popular”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
彼は通俗的な作家と言われている
It is said that he is a popular writer.
特に通俗的に有用な労働と認識されているような労力が嫌悪されているのである。
What is loathed is, in particular, effort such as is popularly recognized as useful labor.
ただし、通俗的な理解とは異なり、摂関家は専横的に権力を振るったわけではない。
However, contrary to popular understanding, the Sekkan families did not wield power in a high-handed manner.
ワカメは海藻なので根はないが、通俗的には「ワカメの根元部分」とも表現される。
Wakame is a seaweed and so has no roots, but colloquially its base part is also referred to as the 'root of wakame.'
しかし、そのような通俗的理解は竹内理三・元木泰雄らの研究により見直されている。
However, such popular understanding has been reexamined by the research of Rizo Takeuchi, Yasuo Motoki and others.
また、芸妓が筋の中心には上野戦争(彰義隊のたたかい)で生き別れになった兄妹の再会など、通俗的な側面もあった。
In addition, there was also an aspect of a popular novel with a geigi (a professional female entertainer at banquets) placed at the center of the storyline, while such element as a reunion of a separated brother and a sister by the Battle of Ueno (the battle between the shogitai [a band of supporters of the Tokugawa bakufu] and the Meiji government's army) was also depicted in the novel.
いわゆる性格判断などはそういった側面もあるが、更に広く通俗的な分野では、特定の誰かとの相性を知ろうという占いも盛んである。
While so-called personality judgments have such an aspect, fortune-telling to learn compatibility with a particular person is also thriving in the even broader popular sphere.
一方、江戸後期には幕藩体制の矛盾と対外緊張の高まりの中、庶民の間でも歴史への関心が広がり、『日本外史』『皇朝史略』など通俗的な歴史書が多く出版された。
On the other hand, during the latter half of the Edo period, as the bakufu-domain system became unmatched with needs at that time and pressure from foreign nations had heightened, interests for history had increased among general public as well, and many popular histories, such as "Nihon Gaishi" (historical book on Japan) and "Kochoshiryaku" (brief history book about emperors from Jinmu to Gokomatsu), were published.
上で概略を述べた進化論の論証にたいして反進化論者が呈示する通俗的な解答は、グランドキャニオンのような地質学的地形は、数日のうちに神の介入によって創造されたもので、したがって高いところの地層にある化石も低い地層の化石と同時に創られたのではないと推論する権利を誰も持ってはいないという議論です。
One popular answer to the case for evolution sketched out above proposed by anti-evolutionists is the argument that geological features like the Grand Canyon were created by divine intervention in a matter of days, so that we have no right to infer that the fossils in the higher layers were not also created at the same time as those in the lower layers.