English Dictionary

Tiananmen Square

固有名詞

A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China. / A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.

日本語の意味

中国北京市東城区にある大規模な広場。 / 1989年6月4日に大規模な抗議活動が行われた場所。

Tiananmen Square was crowded with tourists photographing the historic monuments.

北京市東城区にある広大な広場「天安門広場」は、観光客が歴史的な記念碑の写真を撮っていて混雑していた。

意味（1）

A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.

On my return from the meeting with Dr Fry, I spent some time walking about Tiananmen Square and took some photographs. Though I had not seen any wall posters there, I did notice six large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hua. In the middle of Tiananmen Square there were several small open air photography stalls around which people were queuing up to have themselves photographed at the great revolutionary centre.

意味（2）

A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.

The situation had its parallels to the one that developed in China that year: one might not be in the mood to talk with that country's leaders after Tiananmen Square, but if you really wanted to move them in the direction of democracy, and get them to restore the very rights they had trampled on, you were better off talking to them than driving them into hard-headed isolation.