偉い人

Meaning

1. expn
   celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position

Example sentences

• 大きくなったら、偉い人になりたい。

  I want to be somebody when I grow up.

• 偉い人は身なりを気にしない。

  A great man doesn't care about his appearance.

• 小学時分は、心から、先生をえらい人だと思っていたから、先生の態度、教訓で、動かされたが、中学は、一つのビジネスにすぎなかった。

  When I was in elementary school I thought, from the bottom of my heart, that the teachers were great people and I was influenced by the teachers' attitudes and moral lessons, but middle school was just a business like any other.