うんぬん

うんぬん
and so on
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¶→うんぬんする
云々
云云
and so on
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うんぬん
and so on
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うんぬん【云々】
1 〔引用の末尾の省略〕 and so on [forth]; et cetera (略: etc., \&c.); …; 〔主なる語以外の省略〕 and the like; and such.

●あの夫婦は車を買う買わないうんぬんのことでもめている. That woman and her husband are bickering over whether to buy a car or not, what kind of car, when, etc., etc.

●『雪国』は国境の長いトンネルをうんぬんという書き出しで始まる. Snow Country begins with the words “The train came out of the long tunnel….”

・水不足うんぬんはさておいても, 水を無駄にしてはいけない. Even leaving aside the “there's a water shortage” bit etc., we shouldn't waste water.

2 〔とやかく・あれこれ〕
~する say something or other 《about…》; 〔批判する〕 criticize; comment 《on…》; talk about…; 〔言及する〕 mention; refer to….

●今さら結果をうんぬんしても始まらない. There's no use talking about the results at this point.

・そのことについてうんぬんするのはもうやめよう. It's time to change [drop] the subject, don't you think? | Why don't we stop talking about that and move on to something else?


Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.

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