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Because the new trainee did things sluggishly, he was told that he'd be fired if he didn't start taking his job seriously.
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Vocabulary list

atarashii
i adjective
  1. new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date; modern
kunrensei
noun
  1. trainee
kunren
noun, suru verb
  1. training; drill; practice; discipline
sei
noun
  1. life; living
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. I; me; myself
noun, used as a suffix
  1. student
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
daradara
adverb, adverb taking the to particle, suru verb
  1. in drops; dripping; trickling; streaming; flowing
  2. gently (sloping)
  3. sluggishly; endlessly; lengthily
  4. leisurely; idly; slowly; slovenly
suru

te-form

shite
suru verb (irregular)
  1. to do; to carry out; to perform
  2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  3. to serve as; to act as; to work as
  4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as (as 〜にする,〜とする)
  6. to decide on; to choose (as 〜にする)
suru verb (irregular), intransitive verb
  1. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) (as 〜がする)
  2. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  3. to be worth; to cost
  4. to pass (of time); to elapse
suru verb (irregular), transitive verb
  1. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B (as AをBにする)
  2. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B (as AをBにする)
  3. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B (as AをBにする)
  4. to feel A about B (as AをBにする)
suffix, suru verb (irregular)
  1. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
auxiliary verb, suru verb (irregular)
  1. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  2. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to (as 〜うとする,〜ようとする)
Suffix after the te form of a verb
iru

Plain Past Indicative Form

ita
ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
  1. to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing (after the -te form of a verb; indicates continuing action or state)
node
particle
  1. that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
shigoto
noun, suru verb
  1. work; job; labor; labour; business; task; assignment; occupation; employment
noun
  1. work
ni
particle
  1. at (place, time); in; on; during
  2. to (direction, state); toward; into
  3. for (purpose)
  4. because of (reason); for; with
  5. by; from
  6. as (i.e. in the role of)
  7. per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
  8. and; in addition to
  9. if; although
honki
noun, no adjective, na adjective
  1. seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity (usu. 本気で)
de
particle
  1. at; in (indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form)
  2. at; when (indicates time of action)
  3. by; with (indicates means of action)
conjunction
  1. and then; so
auxiliary
  1. and; then (indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types)
particle
  1. let me tell you; don't you know (at sentence-end; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.)
torikumu
torikumu

Plain Present Indicative Negative Form

torikumanai
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to be matched against
  2. to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
toku
noun
  1. shelter; shield; hide
toku
na adjective, noun
  1. profit; advantage; benefit; gain (also written as 徳)
  2. rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
toku
noun
  1. virtue
  2. benevolence
  3. profit; benefit; advantage
toku
adverb
  1. quickly; swiftly
  2. already; before
noun, no adjective
  1. long time ago
toku
noun
  1. (the 23) wards of Tokyo

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