鉄のカーテン

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
鉄
てつ
Grade: 3
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
鐵のカーテン (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Partial calque of English iron curtain.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

鉄(てつ)のカーテン • (Tetsu no Kāten) 

  1. Iron Curtain
    • 1948, 宮本百合子, 平和への荷役‎, 青空文庫:
      「怒(いか)りの葡(ぶ)萄(どう)」「真(しん)珠(じゅ)」などの作(さく)品(ひん)で世(せ)界(かい)的(てき)なアメリカの作(さっ)家(か)スタインベックは最(さい)近(きん)ソヴェトを訪(ほう)問(もん)して「鉄(てつ)のカーテン」の彼(かな)方(た)に温(あたたか)い血(ち)をもって勤(きん)労(ろう)し建(けん)設(せつ)し笑(わら)い悲(かな)しんでいる同(おな)じ人(にん)間(げん)の生(せい)活(かつ)していることを発(はっ)表(ぴょう)した。
      “Ikari no Budō”“Shinju” nado no sakuhin de sekaiteki na Amerika no sakka Sutainbekku wa saikin Soveto o hōmon shite “Tetsu no Kāten” no kanata ni atatakai chi o motte kinrō shi kensetsu shi warai kanashinde iru onaji ningen no seikatsu shite iru koto o happyō shita.
      Steinbeck, an American novelist world-renowned for such works as The Grapes of Wrath and The Pearl, recently visited the Soviet Union and made it known that on the other side of the Iron Curtain are fellow warm-blooded people living and working and building and laughing and grieving.

Noun

鉄(てつ)のカーテン • (tetsu no kāten) 

  1. iron curtain (a barrier that greatly hinders interaction or exchange)

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