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大だいの虫むしを生いかして小しょうの虫むしを殺ころせというように、多た少しょうの犠ぎ牲せいはやむを得えないこともある。

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large; big; grown; adult; great; huge; avid

pre-noun adjective

insect; bug; small crawling or flying creature

を

object marker

grammar

let live; keep alive

-> 生かすgodan verb

connective te-form

smallness; small item; small scale

noun, noun prefix

possession, attribution, nominalizer, or nominal linker

insect; bug; small crawling or flying creature; worm; roundworm; intestinal worm; inner impulse; unconscious feeling; mood-influencing inner presence; fretfulness; nervous irritability; person devoted to one thing; single-minded enthusiast; valve core; mushi; hanafuda game with a stripped deck

kill; murder; slay; suppress; destroy; spoil; kill (figurative); suppress (voice/feelings); hold back; stifle; put out (baseball runner); pawn; hock

-> 殺すgodan verb

called; that; the fact that

so that; in order to

多た少しょう

a little; somewhat; to some extent

adverb, no-adjective, noun

possession, attribution, nominalizer, or nominal linker

犠ぎ牲せい

やむを得えない

unavoidable; cannot be helped; inevitable

expression, i-adjective

thing; matter; the fact that; doing

noun, noun suffix

be in a completed state; be left as done

godan verb, auxiliary