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The Japanese word for ceiling is
天井

てんじょう - tenjō

Pronunciation

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Example Sentences

ミケランジェロがシスティナ礼拝堂の天井に人物画を描けるように、シェークスピアがセリフを書けるように、キーツが詩を書けるように、そうしたことのために無数の人々が生きて、苦しんで、死んだのはそれだけの価値があることのように思えたのだった。So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.
天井が落ちてきていぬが逃げていった。Down came the ceiling and the dog went away.
天井が落ちれば、彼は押しつぶされるだろう。If the ceiling fell, he would be crushed.
天井は高さが10フィートある。The ceiling measures ten feet high.
頭の上の天井が揺れた。The ceiling over my head shook.




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