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荒廃 (kouhai)

ruin

  • JLPT N1

Meaning

荒廃 (こうはい, kouhai) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “ruin”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 4

巻名かんめいは末摘花すえつむはな(源氏物語げんじものがたり)の荒廃こうはいした邸やしきに茂しげるヨモギに因ちなむ。

The title of this chapter is derived from the mugwort that had taken over Suetsumuhana's ruined residence.

このことが借地の上に運営されていることと重なって、結果として大規模伐採~森林の荒廃という悪循環を招くこととなった。

Combined with the fact that it was operated on leased land, this resulted in a vicious cycle of large-scale logging leading to forest devastation.

したがって、伐採面積をさらに拡大して利益の確保を図るという悪循環に陥ってしまい、演習林の更なる荒廃を招く結果となった。

Therefore, a vicious cycle of expanding the tree-cutting area to increase the profit set in, making the state of the field practice forest further deteriorate.

例えば戦後の荒廃時は、民主主義国として再構築を目指す中、日本に残る独特な封建的な制度・習慣がアメリカや西欧諸国と比較され批判的に検証された。

For example, in the desolated days after the war, while Japan was aiming at reconstruction as a democratic nation, unique feudal system and custom left in Japan were critically inspected, being compared with those in the U.S. and the Western European countries.

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