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（多おおくの経けい営えい者しゃは）会かい社しゃとは何どのためにあるかと聞きかれたときに、会かい社しゃに貢こう献けんするためとか、従じゅう業ぎょう員いんのためとか、顧こ客きゃくのためとか、本ほん来らいの筋すじからズレたトンチンカンなことを言いってしまう。しかし、株式会社かぶしきがいしゃの本ほん来らいの目もく的てきは株かぶ主ぬしへ利り益えき還かん元げんをすることです。だから株かぶ主ぬしのためとストレートに答こたえられなければならない。株かぶ主ぬしに最さい大だい限げんの利り益えきをもたらすことが株式会社かぶしきがいしゃの社しゃ長ちょうの責せき任にんなのです。それがわかれば会かい社しゃがやるべきことは見みえてきます。

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Vocabulary2 words
  • 従業員じゅうぎょういん
    • ·employee; worker
    N1
  • やる
    • ·to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study
    • ·to send; to dispatch; to despatch
    • ·to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.)
    • ·to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer
    • ·to make (a vehicle) go faster
    • ·to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise
    • ·to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke
    • ·to hold (a performance); to perform; to show
    • ·to ease (one's mind)
    • ·to harm; to injure; to kill
    • ·to have sex; to fuck; to bang
    • ·to live; to get by; to get along
    • ·to do ... completely
    • ·to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance
    • ·to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to
    • ·to make active efforts to ...
    • ·to suffer from (an illness); to experience (a medical condition); to be afflicted with
    N1
Other levels21 words
  • 会社かいしゃ
    • ·company; corporation; firm
    • ·one's workplace
    N5
  • 何のどの
    • ·which; what (way)
    N5
  • ある
    • ·to be; to exist; to live
    • ·to have
    • ·to be located
    • ·to be equipped with
    • ·to happen; to come about
    • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
    N5
  • 聞くきくAs it appears here: 聞かれた
    • ·to hear
    • ·to listen (e.g. to music)
    • ·to ask; to enquire; to query
    • ·to hear about; to hear of; to learn of
    • ·to follow (advice, order, etc.); to obey; to listen to; to comply with
    • ·to hear (e.g. a plea); to grant (a request); to accept (e.g. an argument); to give consideration to
    • ·to smell (esp. incense); to sample (a fragrance)
    • ·to taste (alcohol); to try
    N5
  • する
    • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
    • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
    • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
    • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
    • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
    • ·to decide on; to choose
    • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
    • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
    • ·to be worth; to cost
    • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
    • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
    • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
    • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
    • ·to feel A about B
    • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
    • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
    • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
    N5
  • 言ういうAs it appears here: 言って
    • ·to say; to utter; to declare
    • ·to name; to call
    • ·to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
    N5
  • しかし
    • ·however; but
    N5
  • 答えるこたえるAs it appears here: 答えられなければ
    • ·to answer; to reply
    N5
  • それ
    • ·that; it
    • ·then; that point (in time); that time
    • ·there
    • ·you
    N5
  • わかるAs it appears here: わかれば
    • ·to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow
    • ·to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized (realised); to be found out; to make sense
    • ·I know!; I think so too!
    N5
  • ため
    • ·good; advantage; benefit; welfare
    • ·sake; purpose; objective; aim
    • ·consequence; result; effect
    • ·affecting; regarding; concerning
    N4
  • 社長しゃちょう
    • ·company president; manager; director
    N4
  • 見えるみえるAs it appears here: 見えて
    • ·to be seen; to be visible; to be in sight
    • ·to look; to seem; to appear
    • ·to come
    N4
  • とき
    • ·time; hour; moment
    • ·occasion; case
    • ·chance; opportunity; season
    • ·the times; the age; the day
    • ·tense
    N3
  • 貢献こうけん
    • ·contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause)
    • ·paying tribute; tribute
    N3
  • 筋すじ
    • ·muscle; tendon; sinew
    • ·vein; artery
    • ·fiber; fibre; string
    • ·line; stripe; streak
    • ·reason; logic
    • ·plot; storyline
    • ·lineage; descent
    • ·school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
    • ·aptitude; talent
    • ·source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
    • ·well-informed person (in a transaction)
    • ·logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
    • ·ninth vertical line
    • ·seam on a helmet
    • ·gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
    • ·social position; status
    • ·on (a river, road, etc.); along
    • ·counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
    • ·street (in Osaka)
    • ·(Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
    N3
  • こと
    • ·thing; matter
    • ·incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
    • ·circumstances; situation; state of affairs
    • ·work; business; affair
    • ·after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
    • ·nominalizing suffix
    • ·pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
    • ·alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or
    • ·necessity; need
    • ·you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...
    N3
  • 目的もくてき
    • ·purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention; motive
    N3
  • 利益りえき
    • ·profit; gains
    • ·benefit; advantage; good; interests (e.g. of society)
    • ·grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle
    N3
  • 責任せきにん
    • ·duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff)
    • ·liability; onus
    N3
  • 本来ほんらい
    • ·originally; primarily
    • ·essentially; intrinsically; naturally; by nature; in (and of) itself
    • ·proper; rightful; legal; normal
    N2
Grammar1 patterns

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  • だの～だのN1

    Reduplicated listing particle citing examples with a tone of complaint or exasperation ("what with X and Y and all that").

    株主に最大限の利益をもたらすことが株式会社の社長の責任なのです。

    Bringing shareholders the greatest possible profit is the responsibility of the president of a joint-stock company.

Other levels8 patterns
  • ためにN35 times in this passage

    marks a purpose ('in order to') or a cause ('because of / owing to').

    （多くの経営者は）会社とは何のためにあるかと聞かれたときに、会社に貢献するためとか、従業員のためとか、顧客のためとか、本来の筋からズレたトンチンカンなことを言ってしまう。

    (Many executives), when asked what a company exists for, come out with answers off the true line — to contribute to the company, for the employees, for the customers.

  • ときN4

    Marks the time at which something happens — "when X, Y."

    （多くの経営者は）会社とは何のためにあるかと聞かれたときに、会社に貢献するためとか、従業員のためとか、顧客のためとか、本来の筋からズレたトンチンカンなことを言ってしまう。

    (Many executives), when asked what a company exists for, come out with answers off the true line — to contribute to the company, for the employees, for the customers.

  • とか～とかN43 times in this passage

    Lists a few representative, non-exhaustive examples — 'things like X and Y', 'X, Y, and so on'.

    （多くの経営者は）会社とは何のためにあるかと聞かれたときに、会社に貢献するためとか、従業員のためとか、顧客のためとか、本来の筋からズレたトンチンカンなことを言ってしまう。

    (Many executives), when asked what a company exists for, come out with answers off the true line — to contribute to the company, for the employees, for the customers.

  • 〜てしまう / 〜ちゃうN4

    Verb te-form plus しまう, marking an action as fully completed or done regrettably/by accident — 'end up ...ing' / 'finish ...ing'; ちゃう/じゃう is the casual contraction.

    （多くの経営者は）会社とは何のためにあるかと聞かれたときに、会社に貢献するためとか、従業員のためとか、顧客のためとか、本来の筋からズレたトンチンカンなことを言ってしまう。

    (Many executives), when asked what a company exists for, come out with answers off the true line — to contribute to the company, for the employees, for the customers.

  • なければならないN4

    Expresses a general, unavoidable obligation or necessity — 'must / have to'.

    だから株主のためとストレートに答えられなければならない。

    So one must be able to answer straight out: for the shareholders.

  • 〜てくるN4

    Verb te-form plus 来る, marking motion toward the speaker or the gradual onset of a state — 'come to do' / 'start to / become'.

    それがわかれば会社がやるべきことは見えてきます。

    Once that is understood, what the company should do comes into view.

  • しかしN5

    Contrastive conjunction joining two sentences, 'however / but'.

    しかし、株式会社の本来の目的は株主へ利益還元をすることです。

    But the proper purpose of a joint-stock company is to return profit to its shareholders.

  • だ / ですN52 times in this passage

    The copula linking a noun or na-adjective to the subject — plain だ / polite です, 'is/am/are'.

    しかし、株式会社の本来の目的は株主へ利益還元をすることです。

    But the proper purpose of a joint-stock company is to return profit to its shareholders.

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