Illustration: During a supervised fire-hose exercise in a municipal training yard, a trainee opens the nozzle and a powerful stream shoots forward toward a practice target. The hose pushes sharply backward into their braced hands, making their torso tilt and one heel skid along the wet concrete.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

反はん動どう

handou

recoil, backlash

Example sentences

  1. 言いうまでもなく反動はんどうは強烈きょうれつであり、射手しゃしゅは射撃時しゃげきじに自みずから転ころがる事ことで反動はんどうを吸収きゅうしゅうする程ほどである。

    It goes without saying that the recoil is very strong; when firing, the shooter has to roll over to absorb the recoil.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 終戦後しゅうせんご、戦前せんぜん〜戦中せんちゅうの国策こくさくとも言いうべき武道励行ぶどうれいこうに対たいする反動はんどうから、国民こくみんの武道ぶどうに対たいする感情かんじょうは非常ひじょうに厳きびしいものとなる。

    After the war, due to a backlash against the rigorous enforcement of martial arts from before the war to during the war--which was something of a national policy--people’s feelings toward the martial arts became very harsh.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 反面はんめん、遊興的ゆうきょうてきに『中あたりさえすれば良よい』とした衰退期すいたいきの反動はんどうから『射型いがたさえ良よければ中あたらなくても良よい』とする風潮ふうちょうや、過度かどな精神偏重せいしんへんちょうが広ひろまるという側面そくめんもあった。

    On the other hand, in reaction to the sentiment, "It’s good as long as it hits," which prevailed in the period of decline, a tendency toward the sentiment, "If the shooting form is good, it doesn’t matter if it does not hit," meaning an overemphasis on the spirit, was becoming common.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 反動

  • 反anti-Onハン・ホン・タンKunそる・そらす・かえす
  • 動move; motionOnドウKunうごく・うごかす

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