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- ないものねだり《無いものねだり・無い物ねだり・ない物ねだり》 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / expression:
- asking for the moon; asking for too much; asking for the impossible
- 物色☆【ぶっしょく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; rummaging; scouring (a place) looking for (something)
- picking out; singling out
コンピューターを物色して歩いたあげく、デイヴィドより200ドル安い値段で手に入れた。 I shopped around for my computer and ended up paying $200 less than David.
- 膳☆【ぜん】
noun:
- small dining table (usu. for a single person); serving tray (with legs)
- meal; food; serving ➜ 御膳
counter:
- counter for bowlfuls of rice; counter for pairs of chopsticks
彼女は膳の上のものを酔った手つきで掴み散らしました。 She threw away everything that was on the small dining table in a drunken hand gesture.
- 丸☆【まる】円
noun:
- circle ➜ ○【まる】
noun / prefix noun:
- entirety; whole; full; complete
noun:
- money; dough; moola - slang
- enclosure inside a castle's walls - esp. 丸
- soft-shelled turtle - Kansai dialect ➜ スッポン
suffix:
- suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc. - esp. 丸 ➜ 麻呂
ジョンとキャシーは興味も性格も違う。その二人を一緒にさせようとするのは丸穴に角釘を打つようなものだ。 John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
我々は丸一ヶ月間、ブロードウェーで出演予定です。 We're booked for the whole month on Broadway.
丸一日オンラインで君を見ないなんてびっくりだよ。 It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
- かばう☆《庇う》 Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for
- 匹★【ひき・き】疋
counter:
- counter for small animals [ひき]
- counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size)
- counter for horses [き] - archaism
noun:
- roll of cloth
- 天は二物を与えず【てんはにぶつをあたえず】
expression:
- God doesn't give with both hands; God does not give two gifts; heaven does not grant people more than one talent - proverb
- 見る影もない【みるかげもない】見る影も無い Inflection
expression / adjective:
- mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable - idiom
- 十年一日【じゅうねんいちじつ・じゅうねんいちにち】
noun:
- without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom
- 代わりになる【かわりになる】代わりに成る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for
- 混合語【こんごうご】
noun:
- pidgin; creole; new language created by blending two or more existing languages (e.g. Afrikaans) - Linguistics term
- contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term ➜ コンタミネーション
- 模索☆【もさく】摸索 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- groping (for); exploring for a solution
政府は、政治問題に関するネット上の会話を監視し、誤った情報と判断した場合にそれを訂正する方法を模索している。 The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation.
- 恋愛活動【れんあいかつどう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- looking for love; searching for a lover - colloquialism
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