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悲鳴

ひめい

shriek; scream

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Examples

  1. 蛇をみたとき、彼女は悲鳴をあげた。

    へびをみたとき、かのじょはひめいをあげた。

    She screamed when she saw a snake.

  2. 悲鳴が聞こえて外に飛び出した。

    ひめいがきこえてそとにとびだした。

    I heard a scream and ran outside.

  3. 注文が殺到して現場は悲鳴を上げている。

    ちゅうもんがさっとうしてげんばはひめいをあげている。

    Orders are flooding in and the shop floor is buckling under the strain.

Common patterns

悲鳴を上げる
to scream; to be overwhelmed
悲鳴が上がる
a scream goes up
うれしい悲鳴
a happy problem; too much of a good thing

Memory tip

The verb is fixed: 悲鳴を上げる, not 出す. Figuratively it means to be overwhelmed by work, and うれしい悲鳴 is the 'nice problem to have' of being swamped by success.

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