Illustration: At a small riverside allotment after rain, a gardener discovers that the soft ground cannot support a newly placed water barrel. Its narrow stand has sunk unevenly into the earth, leaving the barrel tilted and its feet buried in deep impressions.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

軟なん弱じゃく

nanjaku

soft, structurally weak

Example sentences

  1. この頃ころの地勢ちせいは地下ちかの軟弱なんじゃくな状態じょうたいからみて、あるいは泥地どろちのような湿地帯しっちたいでなかったかと思おもわれる。

    In view of the soft earth below ground, it seems that this area used to be a marshland such as mud flat.

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

  2. 明治時代以降めいじじだいいこうに鉄道てつどうが敷設ふせつされたときに亀かめノ瀬せトンネルが掘ほられたが、軟弱なんじゃく地盤じばんのため、崩壊ほうかいして放棄ほうきされた。

    When a railroad was constructed after the Meiji period, Kamenose tunnel was built, but the tunnel caved in due to the soft ground, and the railroad had to be abandoned.

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

  3. 賠償金ばいしょうきんは1912年ねんに清朝せいちょうが滅亡めつぼうした後のちも、清朝せいちょうを引ひき継ついだ国家こっかとみなされた中華民国ちゅうかみんこくにそのまま負おわされ、中央政権ちゅうおうせいけんが軟弱なんじゃくな基盤きばんしか持もちえなかった理由りゆうの一ひとつとなった。

    Even after the Qing dynasty perished, the reparations were succeeded by the Republic of China because it was considered to be a nation that succeeded the Qing dynasty, and that was one of reasons that the central government had weak foundations.

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

Kanji in 軟弱

  • 軟softOnナンKunやわらか・やわらかい
  • 弱weak; frailOnジャクKunよわい・よわる・よわまる

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