年輪

プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)

ねんりん【年輪】

&fRoman1;

❶〔木の〕an annual ring (of a tree); a tree ring

❷〔年々の歴史〕a year-by-year history

日本の年輪
the history of Japan

&fRoman2;〔刻まれた人生の苦労〕

あの人には人生の年輪を感じる
I can see 「the effect of the years on him [that he has gone through a lot (in the course of his life)].

彼の文章はさすがに年輪をつんでいる
What he writes shows the depth that only a man of his experience can have.

船体には年輪がきざまれていた
The ship carried traces of many hard voyages on her body.

年輪年代測定法

tree-ring dating

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