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- 世を渡る【よをわたる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to make one's way in the world; to earn one's living; to live - idiom
- 職業柄【しょくぎょうがら】
adverbial noun:
- due to the nature of one's job; because of one's line of work
職業柄彼は数人の外国人と近づきになっている。 His job has brought him in contact with some foreigners.
- 優位に立つ【ゆういにたつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand
- 下放運動【かほううんどう】
noun:
- Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside
- 投書★【とうしょ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
- contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿
- 徹する☆【てっする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.):
- to penetrate; to sink in
- to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
- to do throughout (e.g. the night)
大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。 I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
- 妻戸【つまど】
noun:
- (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
- door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造
- ガタがくる・がたがくる Inflection
expression / ~くる verb (spec.):
- to show one's age (e.g. to start creaking at the joints); to wear out (e.g. machinery) ➜ ガタガタ
- そう来なくっちゃ【そうこなくっちゃ】
expression:
- I thought so; I suspected as much; Just as I thought; Now you are talking; That's the spirit - colloquialism
- 綴じ合わせる【とじあわせる】綴じ合せる Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together
- 共同浴場【きょうどうよくじょう】
noun:
- public bath; communal bath
- public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee
- 蔵造り【くらづくり】蔵づくり・倉造り・倉づくり Inflection
noun:
- warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り
noun / ~する noun:
- building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses
- ブラックツリーモニター・ブラック・ツリー・モニター
noun:
- black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor
- 口が曲がる【くちがまがる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
- to warp one's mouth
- ラインアウト・ライン・アウト
noun:
- line-out (rugby); lineout - Sports term
- becoming out by running more than 3 feet outside the base line - Baseball term
- line out (signal)
- 理念★【りねん】
noun:
- (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
これらの理念は憲法に具体化されている。 These ideas are embodied in the constitution.
- 逆ギレ【ぎゃくギレ】逆切れ・逆ぎれ【ぎゃくぎれ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- getting angry (with someone who is angry with oneself); snapping back (at someone); lashing out (despite being in the wrong) - slang ➜ キレる
- イレズミニザ
noun:
- white-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps, species of tang from the Indo-West Pacific); spot-face surgeon; pale-lined surgeonfish; yellow-freckled surgeon fish
- つばめうお・つばくろうお《燕魚》ツバメウオ
noun:
- longfin batfish (Platax teira, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish); Tiera batfish [つばめうお・ツバメウオ]
- flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) - obscure term ➜ 飛び魚
- 飴売り【あめうり】飴売irr.
noun:
- candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender
- 時代に呼応する【じだいにこおうする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to be up-to-date; to be relevant; to respond to the times ➜ 呼応
- 涼む☆【すずむ】 Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to cool oneself; to cool off; to enjoy the cool air
- 頭をもたげる【あたまをもたげる】頭を擡げる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to raise one's head; to come to the fore; to rise into importance; to gain strength; to rear its head
Kanji
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