にしてみれば means "from X's point of view": the speaker steps into
someone's position and says how things look or feel to them. It goes straight
after a noun for a person or group, and what follows is that person's
feeling or judgement.
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For a parent, a child's safety comes first.
、。
For the person concerned, this is no joking matter.
、。
For students, a rise in fees is a heavy burden.
The sentence often explains or defends a reaction that others might not
share, and it tends to end in a guess or a judgement: きごう〜,
きごう〜, きごう〜.
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For the victims, an apology alone is probably not enough.
にしてみれば or にとって
states what something is for someone: useful, important,
difficult. にしてみれば imagines their feelings from the inside, so it suits
a reaction or an opinion and not a plain evaluation.
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This book is useful for students.
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From the students' side, there probably seems to be far too much homework.
にしてみたら and にすれば
means the same and sounds a little more conversational.
and
are shorter forms of the same idea, without
the "try it from their side" of みる. All of them belong to ordinary speech
as well as writing.
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As far as kids are concerned, grown-ups' reasons don't matter.
Lingaku