原げん体たい験けん

noun

formative experience; primal experience

Refers to a deeply influential experience, often from childhood or youth, that shapes one's values, personality, or life direction.

• 彼かれの音おん楽がくの原げん体たい験けんは、幼おさない頃ころに聴きいたクラシックだった。

  His formative musical experience was the classical music he heard as a child.

• この小しょう説せつは、作さく者しゃの戦せん争そうの原げん体たい験けんに基もとづいている。

  This novel is based on the author's primal experience of war.