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jmdict 2831129 Active (id: 1943814)
子孫代々子孫代代
しそんだいだい
1. [n]
▶ generation after generation
▶ (for) generations to come



History:
2. A 2017-01-28 02:17:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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N-grams
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>子孫代代</keb>
@@ -13 +16 @@
-<gloss>for generations to come</gloss>
+<gloss>(for) generations to come</gloss>
1. A* 2017-01-14 16:50:53  luce
  Refs:
K/M n-grams (104)
prog (under 子孫):
    子孫代々に伝わる宝 a treasure handed down from generation to generation
text at hand:
「私は亡き父の仕事をついで、この森を見守り続けます。私が死んだら、私の子へ、そのまた子へ、子孫代々まで。。。」
  Comments:
might be worth including, if someone figures out a better translation for this. mine's a guess at best.
it's both a reasonably common collocation and a bit A+B

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