Illustration: In the entrance area of a Japanese nursery school, a child has arranged a long row of indoor shoes heel to toe along a taut cord stretched across the floor. The row runs perfectly straight from the shoe shelves toward the classroom doorway.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

一いっ直ちょく線せん

itchokusen

straight line

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは仕事しごとが終おわるとすぐ一直線いっちょくせんにパブへ向むかう。

    As soon as work is over, he makes a beeline for the pub.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 「皆既月食かいきげっしょく」は、太陽たいようと地球ちきゅう、それに月つきが一直線いっちょくせん上じょうに並ならんで月つきが地球ちきゅうの影かげに完全かんぜんに覆おおわれる現象げんしょうです。

    A "total lunar eclipse" is a phenomenon where the earth lines up in a straight line between the sun and the moon and completely conceals the moon in its shadow.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 賀茂大橋かもおおはしから四条大橋しじょうおおはしまでの一直線いっちょくせんの河道かどうはこの時ときに固定こていされたと考かんがえられている。

    The straight waterway between the Kamo Ohashi and Shijo Ohashi Bridges was believed to have been secured at this period.

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

Kanji in 一直線

  • 一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
  • 直fix; repairOnチョク・ジキ・ジカKunただちに・なおす・なおる
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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