Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 前轍を踏む【ぜんてつをふむ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ... - idiom ➜ 轍を踏む
- やこうぼく《夜香木》ヤコウボク
noun:
- night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night
- 風の音【かぜのおと】
expression / noun:
- sound of the wind; voice of the wind
彼は風の音に耳を澄ましながら、長い間座っていた。 He sat for a long time, listening to the sound of the wind.
- 滔々【とうとう】滔滔 Inflection
~と adverb / ~たる adjective:
- torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
- (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
- flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times
- 拾い読み【ひろいよみ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
- reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand
- 八苦【はっく】
noun:
- the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term
- って☆・て☆
particle:
- you said; he said; she said; they said - casual quoting particle ➜ と
- if ... then - indicates supposition
- do you seriously think that - as かって; indicates a satirical or rhetorical question
- I already told you; you should know by now that; of course - indicates certainty, insistence, emphasis, etc.
- the said ... - abbr. of という
- says that ... - abbr. of と言っている
- I hear that ... - abbr. of と聞いている
- as for the term ... - abbr. of とは, というのは
- as for ... - equiv. of は topic marker
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