亡国

ぼうこく
ruined country

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ぼうこく【亡国】

¶ → 亡国の民

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ぼうこく【亡国】

〔亡びた国〕 a ruined [doomed] country; 〔国の滅亡〕 national ruin [decay]; the ruin of one's country.

●亡国的[の] ruinous [dangerous, pernicious] to the State [one's country]; 〔頽廃的〕 degenerate; demoralizing

・亡国的文学 antipatriotic literature

・亡国的経済 finances ruinous to the State

・フリーター亡国論 the argument that job-hopping part-time workers would be the ruin of the country

・当時英語亡国論があった. At that time some contended that the study of English would bring about national decay [ruin].

●亡国の民 a ruined people; a homeless race

・亡国の嘆 lamentation [grief] over the national ruin.