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- 説き伏せる【ときふせる】説伏せる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on
- 蔑む☆【さげすむ】貶む Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
多分男の唯一真実な威厳は、自分自身をさげすむことができる能力であろう。 Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
- 卑しむ【いやしむ】賤しむold Inflection
godan ~む verb:
- to despise; to disdain; to scorn; to hold in contempt; to look down on
- ささくれ立つ【ささくれだつ】 Inflection
godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:
- ぼーっと☆・ボーっと☆・ボーッと・ぼうっと・ぼおっと・ボウッと・ボウっと・ボオッと・ボオっと Inflection
adverb / ~する noun:
- doing nothing; being stupefied; flushingly; abstractedly; dazedly; blankly; dreamily - onomatopoeia
- dimly; hazily; faintly; vaguely; indistinctly - onomatopoeia
adverb:
- with a roar (e.g. flames); with a whoosh - onomatopoeia
- 水屋【みずや】
noun:
- purificatory font at shrines and temples
- kitchen
- cupboard
- room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
- vendor of drinking water
- building for taking refuge during a flood
- 七情【しちじょう】
noun:
- seven emotions (in The Book of Rites: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, desire); seven emotions (in Buddhism: joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate, desire)
- seven effects (of a traditional Chinese medicine)
- 高麗☆【こうらい・こま】狛【こま】
noun:
- Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) [こうらい] - abbreviation
noun / prefix noun:
- Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)
noun:
- (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine [狛] ➜ 狛犬
- 耳にタコができる【みみにタコができる】耳にたこができる・耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears
- カバー☆・カヴァー Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- cover; covering; dust jacket
- cover song; cover version
- coverage
~する noun:
- to compensate for (a loss); to offset (a weakness); to back up
- 飛躍★【ひやく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- leaping; activity
- leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic)
- making great strides; making rapid progress
- emerging
- becoming active; playing an active part
私は今まさに最後の旅路につき、暗黒へと一大飛躍しようとしている。 I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
彼の言うことには理論の飛躍がありすぎる。 There is a leap of logic in what he says.
- 梅に鶯【うめにうぐいす】梅にウグイス【うめにウグイス】
expression / noun:
- match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom
- 盛り砂【もりずな】盛砂
noun:
- ceremonial piles of sand (placed on both sides of an entrance to greet an important personage)
- 外商【がいしょう】
noun:
- foreign merchant; foreign businessman; foreign company; foreign firm
- out-of-store sales; calling on customers to take orders
- 下湯【しもゆ】
noun:
- sitz bath; sitting bath; bath for the lower half of the body
- lower pool (e.g. in an onsen); lower bath
- 娑婆【しゃば】
noun:
- this world; this life
- the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.) - colloquialism
- this corrupt world; present world - Buddhism term
我こそは汝が父の亡靈なれ。只眞夜中の若千時のみ、閻浮にさまよふ許あれども、娑婆にて犯しゝ罪業の燒き淨めらるゝそれまでは、焦熱地獄の餓鬼の苦しみ。 I am thy father’s spirit; doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, and, for the day, confin’d to waste in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away.
- 局所☆【きょくしょ】
noun:
- part; section
- part of the body; affected part (of the body)
~の noun:
- local (e.g. anesthesia); topical
noun:
- private parts; genitals
- 雪支度【ゆきじたく】雪仕度・雪じたく
noun:
- getting ready to go out in the snow; clothing for going out in the snow; snow gear - obscure term
- 志す☆【こころざす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to plan; to intend; to aspire to; to set aims (sights on)
このコーヒー店には芸術家を志すものが足しげく通う。 The coffee shop is haunted by aspiring artists.
- 訪れる☆【おとずれる・おとづれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to visit; to call on
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to arrive; to come; to appear
手始めは、三大宗教の聖地、エルサレムを訪れることだった。 For a start, I visited Jerusalem - a sacred place for three major religions.
- 省みる☆【かえりみる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to reflect on (oneself, past conduct, etc.); to contemplate; to examine; to think over; to introspect ➜ 顧みる
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