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公共土木施設災害復旧事業費国庫負担法

こうきょうどぼくしせつさいがいふっきゅうじぎょうひこっこふたんほう
National Government Defrayment Act for Reconstruction of Disaster-Stricken Public Facilities
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減災

げんさい
natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster
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東日本大震災

ひがしにほんだいしんさい
Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai earthquake
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東北関東大震災

とうほくかんとうだいしんさい
Tohoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Sendai earthquake
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ボストン糖蜜災害

ボストンとうみつさいがい
Boston Molasses Disaster (Jan. 15, 1919); Great Molasses Flood
Kanji

サイ、 わざわ.い
disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil
Sentence

口は禍の門。

(くち)(わざわい)(もん)
The tongue wounds more than a lance.
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彼に災いあれ。

(かれ)(わざわ)いあれ。
Woe betide him!
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口は災いの元。

(くち)(わざわ)いの(もと)
Out of the mouth comes evil.
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彼は戦災孤児だ。

(かれ)戦災(せんさい)孤児(こじ)だ。
He is a war orphan.