捉える

Meanings

1. Ichidan verb, Transitive

   to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest; to grab; to catch hold of
2. to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to capture (e.g. features)
3. to captivate; to move (one's heart)

Forms

• ここでは物事ものごとを大局的たいきょくてきに捉とらえなければいけないよ。

  You need to look at the big picture here.

• 彼かれらが黙だまったままでいるのを、私わたしは同意どういだと捉とらえた。

  I interpreted their silence as consent.

• 風鈴ふうりんが奏かなでる涼すずやかな音おとは日本にほんの夏なつの風物詩ふうぶつしの一ひとつだが、近年きんねんではただの騒音そうおんと捉とらえる人ひとも増ふえている。

  The clear and refreshing sound of the wind chimes is one of the characteristics of summers in Japan, but in recent years the number of people who perceive it merely as noise has been increasing.

• 企業きぎょうは、競合他社きょうごうたしゃを業界ぎょうかい内ないの狭せまい範囲はんいで捉とらえて、本当ほんとうのライバルを明確めいかくに理解りかいしてない場合ばあいが数多かずおおくあります。

  Businesses perceive as competitors a narrow range of the business world; there are many cases where they don't understand their real rivals.

• 思考しこうと発話はつわとが相互依存そうごいぞんすることからわかるように、言語げんごは、既成きせいの事実じじつを捉とらえるための手段しゅだんというよりも、未知みちなる真実しんじつを見みつけ出だすための手段しゅだんである。その多様性たようせいは、音声おんせいや記号きごうではなく世界観せかいかんの多様性たようせいなのだ。

  The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.