Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 立端【たっぱ】建端・立っ端・建っ端
noun:
- height (of a building, etc.) - Architecture term
- height (of a person, thing, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
- ところ☆《所・処・處old》とこ《所》
noun / suffix:
- place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
- address
- district; area; locality
- one's house
- point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
- passage (in text); part
- space; room
- thing; matter
noun:
- whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
- about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
- was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb
さあ、今汲みなさい。そして宴会の世話役の所に持っていきなさい。 Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.
「そのうちに、あなたのところにお邪魔してもいいですか」「どうぞ、どうぞ」 "Do you mind if I call on you sometime?" "No, not at all."
驚かない所をみると知ってたのね。 Seeing that you're not surprised, I think you must have known.
おじを見送りに駅に行ってきたところだ。 I have been to the station to see my uncle off.
- 遠流【おんる・えんる】
noun:
- banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system
- 白洲梯子【しらすばしご】
noun:
- stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲
- 要点に触れる【ようてんにふれる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points
- 体力づくり【たいりょくづくり】体力作り
noun:
- fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness
- 側筆【そくひつ】
noun:
- painting with the body of a brush's bristles (to create a thicker line than possible with the tip) ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】
- 新仏【しんぼとけ・あらぼとけ・にいぼとけ】
noun:
- spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death ➜ 御盆
- the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)
- 進退両難【しんたいりょうなん】
noun:
- being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom
- 通す☆【とおす】徹す☆・透す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to stick through; to force through
- to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse
- to make a path between two points
- to proceed in a logical manner ➜ 筋を通す【すじをとおす】
- to let pass; to allow through
- to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in
- to go through (a middleman)
- to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.)
- to pass (a law, applicant, etc.)
- to force to accept; to force agreement
- to continue (in a state); to persist in
- to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ...
- to do from beginning to end without a break - in the form とおして…する
- to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party
- to do to the end; to carry through; to complete - after the -te form of a verb
彼女の反対はあるがそれをやり通すつもりだ。 I'm going to go through with it in spite of her opposition.
彼は全く有能で自分の立場を守り通すことができる。 He is quite capable and can hold his own.
- 寄りかかる【よりかかる】寄り掛かる☆・寄り掛る・倚り懸かる・凭り掛かるold Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to lean against; to recline on; to lean on
- to rely on; to depend on
- 仏涅槃【ぶつねはん】
noun:
- the death of Shakyamuni Buddha - Buddhism term
- Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 仏涅槃忌
- 下見☆【したみ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
- preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)
noun:
- siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】
場所の確認：見合いの場所を本人か付き添い人が下見をしておきましょう。 Location check: The parties involved themselves or their attendants should look over the place for the miai meeting in advance.
- 雪釣り・雪釣【ゆきつり・ゆきづり】雪つり【ゆきつり】
noun:
- game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism
- 国際人☆【こくさいじん】
noun:
- internationally-minded person; cosmopolitan; citizen of the world
- international celebrity
そのジャーナリストはいわゆる国際人だ。 The journalist is what you call a cosmopolitan.
- 一擲千金【いってきせんきん】
expression:
- being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom
- ダウンシフト
noun:
- downshift; changing from upper to lower case letters
- downshifting; living a simpler life
- downshifting (on a vehicle) - rare term ➜ シフトダウン
- 旦那☆【だんな】檀那
noun:
- master (of a house, shop, etc.)
- husband (informal)
- sir; boss; master; governor; word used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
- patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ➜ パトロン
- alms; almsgiving; almsgiver - orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那 - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "dāna" ➜ 檀越・檀家
その醜い肉屋の旦那はあの想像上の怪物に似ている。 That ugly butcher resembles that fictional monster.
旦那も子供の引き取り権を望んでいた。 Her husband also wanted custody of the children.
- 連作☆【れんさく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
- collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
- series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence
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