本帖最后由 choi 于 3-15-2016 16:54 编辑
Kirk Spitzer, Japan's Working Moms Are Loud and Clear on Day Care; After vent goes viral, Abe makes changes. USA Today, Mar 15, 2016, at page 3A.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne ... oes-viral/81764680/
Quotation in the window of print: "My child wasn't accepted at nursery school. Die, Japan! 保育園落ちた日本死ね!!!" Working mom's blog post
Note:
(a) Jim Breen's Japanese English dictionary:
* ho-iku-en 保育園 【ほいくえん】 (n): "nursery school; day nursery; preschool"
* ochiru 落ちる 【おちる】 (intransitive verb): "to fall/drop; to be removed (eg, name on a list); to be defeated"
* 死ね (pronounced "shine"): "「死ぬ」の命令形"
^ shinu 死ぬ 【しぬ】 (v): "die; to pass away <溺れ死ぬ, 凍え死ぬ frozen to death. 焼け死ぬ burned to death, 死ぬ迄戦う fight to [till] death>"
(b) "Hundreds of picketers immediately showed up at the Diet building, carrying small children and signs proclaiming 'Watashi da' — 'It’s me!' "
Japanese grammar does not differentiate subject 主词 or object 受词. The "watashi" is the pronoun "私" (English: I, me, myself). The "da" signals the end of a sentence, itself meaningless.
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