Definition of おり
- おり《降り》
noun:
- giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term
Example Sentences
- 死亡事例が19件と全体の20%を超えており、過労死の深刻な実態が浮き彫りになった。
- With 19 cases of death forming over 20% of the whole, the grave reality of overwork-deaths has been thrown into relief.
- アメリカは世界の1/4の二酸化炭素を排出しており、一人当たりの排出量も世界で最も多いのです。
- 1/4 of the world's carbon dioxide emissions are from America: its per-capita emissions are also the greatest in the world.
- 動詞helpはto不定詞・原形不定詞の両方をとりますが、くだけた文体では原形不定詞が多いとされており、この例文でもそれが使われています。
- The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
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