Illustration: Inside a neighborhood tofu shop, a reporter interviews the owner while observing the morning production. She holds a small audio recorder toward him and listens closely as he demonstrates lifting a fresh block from its mold.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

取しゅ材ざい

shuzai

to gather material for a story

Example sentences

  1. そのジャーナリストは自分じぶんの取材しゅざいした事実じじつを勝手かってに変かえた。

    The journalist took liberties with the facts he had gathered.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 「トムは、教室きょうしつの掃除そうじサボってどこに行いったの?」「なんかね、『学校新聞がっこうしんぶんに載のせる記事きじの取材しゅざいしてくる』っていいながら、給食室きゅうしょくしつに行いったよ」

    "Tom’s skipping out on cleaning duty? Where did he go?" "He said something like, 'I’m going to go collect information for the school paper' and went to the cafeteria."

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 近年きんねんになりロシアから視察しさつや取材しゅざいのために和木地区わきちくへ訪おとずれる人ひとが多おおくなっている。

    Many people come to Waki district from Russia for inspection and interviews in recent years.

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

Kanji in 取材

  • 取takeOnシュKunとる・とり・とり-
  • 材lumber; logOnザイ

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