原文 – Vocabulary details

原げん文ぶん

Noun

1. original text

original

written sentence

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んぶん

original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw

sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text

sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text

sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text

訳やく文ぶんを原げん文ぶんと比ひ較かくしなさい。

Compare the translation with the original.

あの翻ほん訳やくは原げん文ぶんに忠ちゅう実じつだそうだ。

That translation is said to be true to the original.

この文ぶんは訳わけではありません。これが原げん文ぶんです。

This sentence is not a translation. It's the original.

どんなに立りっ派ぱな翻ほん訳やくでも明あきらかに原げん文ぶんには及およばないものだ。

Any translation, however good, will clearly fall short of the original.

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