満員電車

まんいんでんしゃ

Meanings

1. Noun crowded train

Kanji

• 満 full. Read as マン.
• 員 member. Read as イン.
• 電 electric. Read as デン.
• 車 car. Read as シャ.

Example sentences

• 満員電車の中は息が詰まりそうだった。
  I thought I was going to suffocate on the crowded train.
• 田舎では草も木も石も人間くさい呼吸をして四方から私に話しかけ私に取りすがるが、都会ではぎっしり詰まった満員電車の乗客でも川原の石ころどうしのように黙ってめいめいが自分の事を考えている。
  In the countryside, the breaths of the grass, the trees, and the rocks have the foul smell of humans. They call to me from all directions, and they cling to me. But in the city, even the passengers of a jam-packed train are as quiet as pebbles on the riverbed, and everyone is only thinking of themselves.
• メアリーは、満員電車の中で身動きが取れなくなった。
  Mary was stuck in the middle of a crowded train, unable to move.
• 僕らは、満員電車に押し込まれた。
  We were crushed into the crowded train.
• 満員電車の中へと押し込まれた。
  We were crushed into the crowded train.

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