day 102abolish and fulfil

abolish and fulfil

Talk about abolishing, discarding and carrying out duties (price rises, damaged stock, reactions, deadlines), and say “once that happens, it's all over” with ～ばそれまでだ.

today’s words

• 逃れる のがれる · to escape, get away from
• 臨む のぞむ · to face, attend, approach (an event)
• 廃棄 はいき · disposal, scrapping
• 廃止 はいし · abolition, discontinuation
• 排除 はいじょ · exclusion, removal
• 配布 はいふ · distribution, handing out
• 配分 はいぶん · allocation, sharing out
• 破壊 はかい · destruction
• 破棄 はき · destruction (of papers); cancellation
• 励む はげむ · to work hard (at), strive
• はげる · to peel off, come off (paint)
• 破損 はそん · damage, breakage
• 果たす はたす · to carry out, fulfil, accomplish
• 発生 はっせい · occurrence, outbreak
• 発足 ほっそく · launch, inauguration
• 果てる はてる · to come to an end; (after a verb) utterly
• 阻む はばむ · to block, hinder, stand in the way
• はまる · to fit; get into, be hooked on
• 早める はやめる · to bring forward, hasten
• 破裂 はれつ · bursting, explosion
• 反撃 はんげき · counter-attack, hitting back
• 反応 はんのう · reaction, response
• 反発 はんぱつ · opposition, backlash; rebound
• ばらまく · to scatter, spread around
• 控える ひかえる · to refrain from; wait; note down
• 引き上げる ひきあげる · to raise, pull up; withdraw
• 引き起こす ひきおこす · to cause, bring about
• 引き下げる ひきさげる · to lower, reduce; withdraw

sentences

• どんなにいい本でも、読まれなければそれまでだ。 · However good a book is, if no one reads it, that's that.
• 健康を失えば、それまでだ。 · Once you lose your health, it's all over.
• その町を走る古い鉄道が、廃止された。 · The old railway that ran through the town was closed.
• 職場の会議では、反対の意見も排除しないでほしい。 · At meetings at work, please don't shut out opposing views either.
• 原爆で、町の多くの建物が破壊された。 · Many of the city's buildings were destroyed by the atomic bomb.