Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 浮き足【うきあし】浮足
noun:
- standing on the balls of the feet; unsteady step
- being unsettled; being restless; being ready to flee
- high volatility (in the market); severe fluctuation - Finance term
- 職務尋問【しょくむじんもん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom
- よる☆《因る・拠る・依る・由る》 Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be due to; to be caused by - esp. 依る;拠る
- to depend on; to turn on - esp. 依る
- to be based on; to come from - esp. 因る;由る
- to be based at (a location, an organization); to be headquartered at - esp. 拠る
スポーツが人々に訴えるのは、その健康的側面によるだけでなく、チーム競技が養う協調精神、それに競争的側面そのものにもよるのである。 It's not only the health aspects of sports that appeal to people, but the cooperative aspect that team sports teach, and the competitive aspect in itself.
ものの見方というのは立場に依るものだ。 Your way of looking at something depends on your situation.
- 酒虫【さかむし・さけむし・しゅちゅう】
noun:
- mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740
- 兼業☆【けんぎょう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously
noun:
- side business; job on the side
- 法人★【ほうじん】
noun:
- corporate body; corporation; (legal) person; (juridical) person
トムの会社はケイマン諸島法人です。 Tom's company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
- けが人☆・怪我人☆【けがにん】ケガ人【ケガにん】
noun:
- wounded person; injured person
けが人は麻酔から覚めた後痛みで泣きわめいた。 The injured person wailed with pain after recovering from the anaesthesia.
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