人間の生活は、
English translation: The lives of human beings
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| 5 +1 | The lives of human beings |
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| 4 | Mankind's livelihood |
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| 4 | Fight was not a fight against people, it was against ... |
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Mankind's livelihood Explanation: 戦いといっても => struggle against nature. 気候や風土に対する工夫は、建築の大切な要素となったのである => Ingenuity became an important factor in construction considering the adverse climate and landscape. |
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58 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Human livelihood Explanation: 戦いといっても means that, although the author calls it a fight, it's not a fight in the strictly literal sense. You could probably translate it a number of different ways; I might say "At first, this was not so much a fight as it was..." "Working against the climate and weather was an essential part of construction." ("Climate and weather" together may be redundant, though). |
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1 hr confidence:
Fight was not a fight against people, it was against ... Explanation: 1. In the beginning, fight was not a fight against people. It was against nature,with a straggle of figuring out how to protect themselves from it. 2. Knowing weather and landscape and using it became important part of construction. |
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1The lives of human beings Explanation: Here is the translation for you. I think this summarizes all of the above. The lives of human beings started from struggles with nature. In the beginning, it was a struggle in a sense that they had to figure out how to protect themselves from the severity of nature. Humans built dwellings for that reason. Ideas that considered the weather and the local conditions became important elements in the architecture. Reference: Iwanami Kokugo Jiten (Japanese dictionary for the natives) Genius English-Japanese Dictionary |
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8 hrs confidence:
Living of mankind Explanation: 1. They say "battles", but.... xxx というが means "even though it's called xxx" or " even though they say it's xxx." Living, existence, or life for 生活; it's to live like mankind as opposed to living as pre-human apes or animals. 2. Their measures against climate and natural features of the land (later) became important factors in architecture. 風土 is natural features of land such as climate, geography, geology, etc. Living of mankind is said to have started from its battles against nature. They say "battles", but it meant that Mankind had to figure out how to protect itself from harsh realities of nature. Thus, Man created dwellings. These measures against climate and natural features of the land later became important factors in architecture. |
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