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僕ぼくは「変へんな人ひと」です。そうでなければ、こんな仕し事ごとはしてません。そして僕ぼくは「普ふ通つうの人ひと」です。だからこそこの仕し事ごとが成せい立りつしています。

「特とく別べつなもの」を生うみ出だそうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特とく別べつなのかを「普ふ通つう」という視し点てんから見み極きわめる必ひつ要ようがあります。「特とく別べつ」と「普ふ通つう」、定じょう規ぎを何なん度ども持もち替かえるのです。そのために自じ分ぶんの中なかの普ふ通つうさを死し守しゅするのです。

（小こ林ばやし賢けん太た郎ろう『僕ぼくがコントや演えん劇げきのために考かんがえていること』による）

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Vocabulary2 words
  • ふう
    • ·seal
    N1
  • 視点してん
    • ·point of view; viewpoint; angle; perspective
    • ·visual point (position of the eye in calculations of optical instruments)
    N1
Other levels23 words
  • 人ひと
    • ·person; someone; somebody
    • ·human beings; mankind; man; people; humans
    • ·human (Homo sapiens)
    • ·(other) people; others
    • ·character; personality; nature
    • ·capable person; competent person; suitable person; right person
    • ·adult; grown-up
    • ·I; me; one
    N5
  • 仕事しごと
    • ·work; job; labor; labour; business; task; assignment; occupation; employment
    • ·work
    N5
  • するAs it appears here: して
    • ·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
  • この
    • ·this
    • ·last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this
    • ·you (as in "you liar")
    N5
  • もの
    • ·thing; object; article; stuff; substance
    • ·one's things; possessions; property; belongings
    • ·things; something; anything; everything; nothing
    • ·quality
    • ·reason; the way of things
    • ·used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen
    • ·item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
    • ·cause of ...; cause for ...
    • ·somehow; somewhat; for some reason
    • ·really; truly
    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
  • それ
    • ·that; it
    • ·then; that point (in time); that time
    • ·there
    • ·you
    N5
  • あるAs it appears here: あります
    • ·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
  • その
    • ·that; the
    • ·part (as in "part two")
    • ·um ...; er ...; uh ...
    N5
  • 自分じぶん
    • ·myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself
    • ·I; me
    • ·you
    N5
  • 中なか
    • ·inside; interior
    • ·among; within
    • ·middle; center; centre
    • ·during; while; middle; midst; amid
    • ·interval; gap
    • ·mean; average
    • ·second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes); middle
    • ·medium grade; medium quality
    • ·red-light district
    N5
  • 僕ぼく
    • ·I; me
    • ·you
    • ·manservant
    N4
  • 変へん
    • ·strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy
    • ·unexpected
    • ·change
    • ·incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; emergency
    • ·flat
    N4
  • 普通ふつう
    • ·normal; ordinary; regular; usual; common; average
    • ·normally; ordinarily; usually; generally; commonly
    • ·local train; train that stops at every station
    N4
  • 特別とくべつ
    • ·special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
    N4
  • 必要ひつよう
    • ·necessary; needed; essential; indispensable
    • ·necessity; need; requirement
    N4
  • ため
    • ·good; advantage; benefit; welfare
    • ·sake; purpose; objective; aim
    • ·consequence; result; effect
    • ·affecting; regarding; concerning
    N4
  • 考えるかんがえるAs it appears here: 考えて
    • ·to think (about, of); to think over; to ponder; to contemplate; to reflect (on); to meditate (on)
    • ·to consider; to bear in mind; to allow for; to take into consideration
    • ·to think (that); to believe; to hold (a view); to judge; to conclude; to suspect
    • ·to intend (to do); to think of (doing); to plan
    • ·to predict; to anticipate; to expect; to imagine
    • ·to come up with; to think up; to contrive; to devise
    • ·to consider (as); to regard (as); to look on (as); to take; to view
    N4
  • とき
    • ·time; hour; moment
    • ·occasion; case
    • ·chance; opportunity; season
    • ·the times; the age; the day
    • ·tense
    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
  • 成立せいりつ
    • ·formation; establishment; materialization; coming into existence
    • ·conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); approval; completion; closing; enacting; arrangement
    • ·being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding; applying
    N2
  • 定規じょうぎ
    • ·(measuring) ruler
    N2
  • 演劇えんげき
    • ·drama; theatre; theater; play
    N2
Grammar1 patterns

Example sentences are translated by AI.

  • 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").

    「特別なもの」を生み出そうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特別なのかを「普通」という視点から見極める必要があります。

    When trying to create something “special,” you need to judge in what way it is special from the perspective of what is “ordinary.”

Other levels11 patterns
  • ふうにN2

    Attaches to a demonstrative or quotation to describe the manner or style of an action — "in this/that kind of way".

    「特別なもの」を生み出そうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特別なのかを「普通」という視点から見極める必要があります。

    When trying to create something “special,” you need to judge in what way it is special from the perspective of what is “ordinary.”

  • こそN3

    Emphatic particle singling out the preceding word as precisely the right or decisive one — 'precisely, exactly, ...for sure.'

    だからこそこの仕事が成立しています。

    That is precisely why this work is possible.

  • というN3

    Quotative marker plus 'say' that introduces a name, definition, or reported content — 'called', 'known as', 'that (one) says'.

    「特別なもの」を生み出そうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特別なのかを「普通」という視点から見極める必要があります。

    When trying to create something “special,” you need to judge in what way it is special from the perspective of what is “ordinary.”

  • そのためにN3

    Connective linking a preceding cause or purpose to what follows, 'for that reason / in order to do that'.

    そのために自分の中の普通さを死守するのです。

    That is why I defend the ordinariness within myself at all costs.

  • ためにN3

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

    （小林賢太郎『僕がコントや演劇のために考えていること』による）

    (From Kobayashi Kentaro, “What I Think About for Comedy Sketches and Theater”)

  • によって/によるN3

    Marks means, cause, passive agent, or a factor something depends on; 'by (means of)', 'due to', 'depending on'.

    （小林賢太郎『僕がコントや演劇のために考えていること』による）

    (From Kobayashi Kentaro, “What I Think About for Comedy Sketches and Theater”)

  • ときN4

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

    「特別なもの」を生み出そうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特別なのかを「普通」という視点から見極める必要があります。

    When trying to create something “special,” you need to judge in what way it is special from the perspective of what is “ordinary.”

  • 必要がある（ひつようがある）N4

    States that doing something is necessary or required — 'need to, it is necessary to'.

    「特別なもの」を生み出そうとするとき、それがどんなふうに特別なのかを「普通」という視点から見極める必要があります。

    When trying to create something “special,” you need to judge in what way it is special from the perspective of what is “ordinary.”

  • だ / ですN54 times in this passage

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

    僕は「変な人」です。

    I am a “strange person.”

  • そしてN5

    Additive/sequential conjunction joining clauses, 'and / and then'.

    そして僕は「普通の人」です。

    And I am also an “ordinary person.”

  • 〜ているN52 times in this passage

    Describes an action in progress or the state that remains after an action happened — “is doing” or “is in the state of having done”.

    だからこそこの仕事が成立しています。

    That is precisely why this work is possible.

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