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About ようによっては
ようによっては is used in Japanese to indicate that the way in which something is done will determine the result. This structure is a combination of the noun 様 ‘manner’, or ‘way’, the case-marking particle に, the て-form of the う-Verb, よる ‘to depend on (A)’, or ‘to be due to (A)’, and the adverbial particle は. The standard translation is ‘depending on the way that (A), (B)’.
ようによっては will often highlight results that vary greatly from person to person, or from one method to the other.
This grammar pattern will appear after the conjunctive form of verbs.
Caution
This phrase may be simply considered to be a more advanced version of the suffix 方, which also highlights a ‘way’. In fact, the two suffixes are completely interchangeable, with 様 being the more formal of the two.
- この絵は見方によっては奇麗な女性かウサギに見える。Depending on how you look at this picture, it may look like a beautiful lady or a rabbit.
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このドレスの色は見ようによっては「青と黒」か「白と金」に見えるかもしれない。
Depending on how you look at it, the color of this dress may seem like it's 'blue and black' or 'white and gold'.
「結構です」は聞きようによっては肯定にでも否定にでもどちらにでも受け取れる。
Depending on the way you hear it, '結構です' can be taken either as affirmation or denial.
経済危機は、一見絶望しかないように見えるが、考えようによっては素晴らしい機会とも言えるかもしれない。
The economic crisis may seem to be nothing but despair. However, depending on the way you think about it, it might also be called a great opportunity.
確かに、この大きな目のクモは、見ようによっては可愛いらしいと言えなくもない。
Needless to say, depending on the way you look at this big-eyed spider, it can kind of be called adorable.
このツイートは読みようによっては皮肉にも取れるだろう。
Depending on the way you read this tweet, you could take it as irony, right!?
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