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隔
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(treating) equally; without discrimination; impartially; alike; in the same way
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distinction; favoritism; favouritism; discrimination
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みんな手があり、足があり、頭があるんだし、みんな歩きもするし、話もするんだもの。でも、今や、これらの人たちを分け隔てようとする何かがあるわ。
They all have arms, legs, and heads, and they walk and talk, but now there's SOMETHING that wants to make them different.
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atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type
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feeling that one is living in a completely different age; feeling that something belongs to a different age; feeling that the world has changed dramatically
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この点に関しては、私が英語学習を志した２０数年前とは隔世の感があります。
On this point it is poles apart from when I set myself on learning English 20 years ago.
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being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch
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もっと単刀直入に言ってくれないかな。隔靴掻痒の感なきにしもあらずだよ。
You don't have to leave me hanging like this. Why don't you just come out and tell it to me straight?