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    3. 遠因

    遠因

    遠えん因いん

    remote cause

    KMT9News #27+1NounHistoryKanji Vocab19 strokes

    えんいん

    Noun

    1.
    remote cause, underlying cause, indirect cause

    Stroke 0 / 19

    Speed1.0x

    その事じ故こには遠えん因いんがあった。

    There was a remote cause for that accident.

    KMT6Daily Life
    経けい済ざい格かく差さが社しゃ会かい不ふ安あんの遠えん因いんとなっている。

    Economic disparity is a remote cause of social unrest.

    KMT9Politics & LawBusiness & Finance
    表ひょう面めん的てきな問もん題だいの背はい後ごには、しばしば複ふく雑ざつな遠えん因いんが隠かくされています。

    Behind superficial problems, complex remote causes are often hidden.

    KMT9Science & MathPolitics & Law
    第だい一いち次じ世せ界かい大たい戦せんの遠えん因いんは、ヨーロッパ列れっ強きょう間かんの対たい立りつにありました。

    The remote cause of World War I lay in the rivalries between the European powers.

    KMT9HistoryPolitics & Law
    地ち球きゅう温おん暖だん化かの遠えん因いんの一ひとつは、産さん業ぎょう革かく命めい以い降こうの二に酸さん化か炭たん素そ排はい出しゅつ量りょうの増ぞう加かです。

    One of the remote causes of global warming is the increase in carbon dioxide emissions since the Industrial Revolution.

    KMT9Science & MathNature & EnvironmentHistory

    Kanji that make up this word

    遠
    とお.い…(6)
    distant・far
    因
    よ.る・ちな.む…(2)
    cause・factor・be associated with・depend on・be limited to
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