Results, Anything+is+better+than+nothing
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- 中☆【ちゅう】
noun / prefix / suffix:
- medium; average; middle
noun:
- moderation
- middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
- China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
- volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻
suffix noun:
いとこたちは2、3日中にくるでしょう。 My cousins are coming in a few days.
うわさの正体をつきとめるために、会社中を調べ回っているんだ。 I've been nosing around the office trying to find out the news.
その学校は、中・高一貫校だということを頭の片隅にでも入れておいて下さい。 Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school.
これらの数字が示すのは、大学1年生の5人中3人が政治に無関心だということだ。 These figures indicate three in five college first-year students are indifferent to politics.
10人中3人はビデオを持っている。 Three out of ten persons have a video.
そのピアニストの演奏中、彼らは一心に耳を傾けた。 They were all ears while the pianist was playing.
- 自作自演【じさくじえん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
- doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
- put-up job; charade
- sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
- 起こす☆【おこす】起す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up
- to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken
- to cause; to bring about; to lead to; to trigger; to give rise to; to create; to generate (e.g. heat, electricity); to produce ➜ 熾す【おこす】
- to start; to begin; to launch; to establish; to found; to set up; to open ➜ 興す【おこす】
- to plough; to plow; to till
- to fall ill with
- to transcribe; to write down (what is spoken)
- to turn over (a card)
子宮内膜炎は、細菌が子宮内に入り、内膜に炎症を起す病気である。 Endometritis is a disease where bacteria enter the uterus and cause inflammation of the inner membrane.
熱が出るとひきつけを起こすことがあります。 Convulsions can occur when they run a fever.
お願いですからヒスを起こす前に話は最後まで聞いてください。 I'm begging you, before freaking out on me listen to the end of what I have to say.
- あまり☆・あんまり☆《余り・餘りold》 Inflection
noun / ~の noun:
- remainder; remnant; rest; balance; surplus; remains (of a meal); leftovers [あまり]
adverb:
- not very; not much - with neg. sentence
- too much; excessively; overly - esp. as あまりに(も) ➜ あまりに・の余り【のあまり】
adjectival noun / ~の noun:
- extreme; great; severe; tremendous; terrible
suffix noun:
- more than; over [あまり]
ぎょうざの具のあまりは?餃子を家で作りましたが、皮が少なかったせいか、具が少し余ってしまいました。 Gyoza stuffing? I made some gyoza at home but, possibly because I didn't have enough dough, I had some of the filling left over.
それはあまり価値がない。 It's not worth much.
ひなたぼっこをしていると、あまりの気持ちよさに、ウトウトしてしまった。 I felt so good as I lazed in the sunshine that I drifted off to sleep.
スイートルームのあまりの豪華さにウットリした。 We were entranced by the fabulous suite.
- さっぱり☆ Inflection
adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:
- feeling refreshed; feeling relieved - onomatopoeia
- neat; tidy; clean
adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:
- frank; open-hearted; plain; simple; light
adverb / ~と adverb:
- completely; entirely
adverb:
- not in the least (with neg. verb); not at all
adjectival noun:
- nothing at all; completely useless; hopeless; awful
- 中継ぎ☆【なかつぎ】中次ぎ☆・中継・中次 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- joining; joint
- intermediation; acting as an intermediary
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- relaying; taking over
noun:
- middle relief pitcher; middle reliever - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 中継ぎ投手
- pole-shaped item with a join in the middle
- tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body
- 名乗る☆【なのる】名のる・名告る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
- to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
- to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
- to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to call out the goods one is selling - archaism
- あんまし Inflection
adjectival noun / adverb / noun / suffix noun:
- remainder; rest; balance; remains; scraps; residue; remnant
adverb:
- not very (with negative sentence); not much
- surplus; excess; fullness; too much
- overjoyed; overwhelmed
suffix noun:
- more than; over
- 坊【ぼう・ぼん】
noun:
- bonze; monk
- monk's dwelling [ぼう]
- boy; sonny - vocative
- I; me [ぼう] - used by male children
suffix:
- little [ぼう] - after name; familiar form of address - familiar language
- person who is ... [ぼう] - often preceded by ん
- でも☆
conjunction:
- but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well
particle:
- even
- however; no matter how; even if; even though
- ... or something
- either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... - as 〜でも〜でも
prefix:
- pseudo-; quack; in-name-only - before an occupation, etc.
- for lack of anything better to do - before an occupation, etc. ➜ でもしか
- あれ☆・あobs.《彼》
noun:
- that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 何れ・此れ・其れ
- that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors)
- over there - archaism
- down there (i.e. one's genitals) [あれ] - colloquialism
- period; menses [あれ] - colloquialism
interjection:
- hey (expression of surprise, suspicion, etc.); huh?; eh?
noun:
- that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)
あれがこの町の大通りだ。 That is the main street of this city.
あれなら絶対大丈夫! Yeah, she must be the sure thing!
あれ?何だろ?パフォーマンスでもやってるのか? Hello, what's that? Somebody doing street theatre or something?
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