徹するてっする

tessuru

to sink in; to penetrate; to devote oneself; to believe in; to go through; to do intently and exclusively

Example sentences

  1. 夜を徹するか否か。

    Should I stay up all night or not?

  2. 大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。

    I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

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