- こぎつける
- [漕ぎ着ける] *manage|他|【D】 【S】[SV to do](人・事が)…を何とかやりとげる∥ We managed to solve the problem. 我々はなんとかその問題の解決にこぎつけた.漕ぎ着ける
to row up to
to attain to* * *こぎつける【漕ぎ着ける】*manage|他|〖D〗 〖S〗[SV to do](人・事が)…を何とかやりとげるWe managed to solve the problem. 我々はなんとかその問題の解決にこぎつけた.
* * *こぎつける【漕ぎ着ける】1 〔ボートなどを〕 row 《a boat》 up to….●海岸にこぎつける row 《a boat》 ashore [to shore].
●ボートを桟橋にこぎつけた. We rowed [paddled] the boat to [up to, alongside] a pier.
2 〔努力して目標に到達する[させる]〕●10 年がかりでその海底トンネルの完成にこぎつけた. After ten years' labor the submarine tunnel was finally completed.
・二人は 3 年の交際を経て結婚にこぎつけた. After going out together for three years the two of them finally got married.
・この仕事はやっと半分までこぎつけた. I have finally managed to get half way through the work.
・やっとのことで条約の調印までこぎつけた. We have finally managed to get the treaty signed [made our way to signature of the treaty].
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.