No. 2,736 in Japanese
缶詰
Canned food or food preserved in a can.
In a sentence
私は旅行の際に缶詰を持っていきます。
I bring canned foods with me on trips.
In this sentence, '缶詰' refers to sealed food in cans often used for storage and portability.
工場は缶詰製造を専門にしています。
The factory specializes in canned food production.
Here, '缶詰' is used to describe the products manufactured by factory processing foods into cans.
彼は今、仕事で缶詰状態です。
He is currently swamped with work and confined, similar to being 'canned'.
In this case, '缶詰' is used metaphorically to describe someone being confined or restricted to a task with minimal external activity.
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