満員電車

Meaning

1. n
   crowded train

Example sentences

• 満員電車の中は息が詰まりそうだった。

  I thought I was going to suffocate on the crowded train.

• 都市の親父は、会社で８時間、それに毎朝毎夕、会社への行き帰りに満員電車の中でさらに２時間過ごさなければならない。

  Fathers in cities spend eight hours in the office and another two hours traveling to and from their work on trains full of people every morning and evening.

• 田舎では草も木も石も人間くさい呼吸をして四方から私に話しかけ私に取りすがるが、都会ではぎっしり詰まった満員電車の乗客でも川原の石ころどうしのように黙ってめいめいが自分の事を考えている。

  In the countryside, the breaths of the grass, the trees, and the rocks have the foul smell of humans. They call to me from all directions, and they cling to me. But in the city, even the passengers of a jam-packed train are as quiet as pebbles on the riverbed, and everyone is only thinking of themselves.