There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
In Esperanto an adjective ends in "a." The plural is formed by adding "j."
エスペラントは形容詞が「a」で終わります。複数形が「j」を付けて作られます。
Why am I so complicated?
どうして私はそんなに複雑な人なんでしょう。
There are complicated circumstances behind the matter.
その問題の裏には複雑な状況がある。
That is a very complex machine.
あれはとても複雑な機械だ。
Computers are capable of doing extremely complicated work.
コンピューターは極めて複雑な仕事をすることが出来る。
But as civilizations grew more complex, better methods of communication were needed.
しかし文明が一層複雑になってくると、よりよい伝達方法が必要になってきた。
The picture you are looking at is a copy of a Picasso.
君が見ている絵はピカソの複製だ。
The Japanese distribution system, characterized by layers of wholesale, is complex and costly.
いく層もの卸業者の存在が特色である日本の流通機構は、複雑でコストもかかる。
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.
Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.
現代の金融は一段と複雑かつ高度になってきている。
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
He came up with a terrific solution to the complex problem.
彼はその複雑な問題を解決するすばらしい方法を思いついた。
DNA is a complex chemical that makes up a gene.
デオキシリボ核酸は、遺伝子を作っている複雑な化学物質である。
Asked about her job, she said, "My job is too complicated to sum up in a word."
彼女は仕事のことを尋ねられると、「私の仕事は複雑なので一言では要約できません」と言った。
He devised a complicated clockwork toy.
彼は複雑なぜんまいじかけのおもちゃを考案した。
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
The pain of the compound fracture was almost unbearable.
複雑骨折の痛みはほとんど耐え難かった。
The factory uses many complicated machines.
工場では複雑な機械をたくさん使います。
Lately the discount airline ticket system has gotten so complicated that there's a lot about it I can't figure out.
最近は、航空券の格安チケットも仕組みが複雑すぎて、わかりにくいことが多い。
The writing style is much less complicated in this article.
書き方が、この記事ではずっと複雑じゃなくなっている。
That made the problem all the more complicated.
そのために問題はますます複雑になった。
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
彼らのコミュニケーションは我々が考えてきたものよりはるかに複雑かもしれません。
Frustrated with the European languages, which he considered "too boring", Christopher Columbus invented "Columbian", a language so complicated that only he could speak it.
