Results, one-upmanship
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- しかめる《顰める・蹙める》 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
彼女のしかめた顔は、他の乙女の微笑みより遥かに美しい。 Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens are.
- 腹を括る【はらをくくる】腹をくくる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to prepare oneself for the worst; to strengthen one's resolve; to accept one's fate; to prepare oneself - idiom
- 殻を破る【からをやぶる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom
- 相和する【あいわする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:
- to get along well together; to be in tune with one another; to harmonize with each other; to go well together
- ませるgikun《老成る》マセる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be precocious; to be mature for one's age; to seem grown-up; to seem mature
- 心を決める【こころをきめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on
- 気持ちを引き締める【きもちをひきしめる】気持を引き締める Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to pull oneself together; to focus one's mind; to brace oneself; to gird up one's loins ➜ 気を引き締める【きをひきしめる】
- 胸襟を開く【きょうきんをひらく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart; to have a heart-to-heart talk (with someone) ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】
- 身を粉にする【みをこにする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal]
- 高嶺の花【たかねのはな】
expression / noun:
- goal which is unattainable; prize beyond one's reach; woman who is out of one's league; flower on a high peak [literal]
そんなことは私には高嶺の花です。 That's to me like a flower on lofty heights.
- 一度★・1度【いちど・ひとたび】一たび・ひと度・一とたびirr.【ひとたび】
adverbial noun:
- once; one time; on one occasion
- temporarily; for a moment [ひとたび]
- one degree; one tone; one musical interval [いちど]
- 約束★【やくそく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date
- convention; rule
- destiny; fate
ジムは映画に行く約束をしたガールフレンドに待ちぼうけをくわされ、雨の中を一時間も待たされて頭にきている。 Jim's angry because his date for the movie stood him up and he wasted an hour waiting for her in the rain.
- 決める☆【きめる】極める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
- to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
- to persist in doing; to go through with
- to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
- to take for granted; to assume
- to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
- to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
- to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
- to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs
私たちがそこへ行くかどうかを決めるのは君の責任だ。 It's up to you to decide whether we'll go there or not.
屋根の勾配をどうするか決めるのはとても重要です。 It is very important to decide what to do about the slope of the roof.
どんな組織であれ、内部の融和と団結はその組織の成敗を決める重要な要素だ。 For any type of organisation, internal harmony and unity are important factors in deciding its success or failure.
- いつか《何時か》
adverb:
- sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course; in time
- 果たして★【はたして】果して
adverb:
- as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough
- really; actually; ever - used in interrogative and hypothetical sentences
この組織は幹部ばかり名を連ねているのではたして決定を下せるのかあやしいものだ。 Since in this organization they're all chiefs and no Indians, it's a wonder any decisions get made.
あなたの言う事が果たして事実なのか調べてみよう。 We will check to see if what you have said is really the truth.
- 懲りる☆【こりる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way
- to have enough (of); to be disgusted with
- なんだかんだ☆《何だかんだ・何だ彼だ》なんだかだ《何だかだ・何だ彼だ》
adverb:
- something or other; one thing or another; this or that
彼は、なんだかんだ言って支払いを延期した。 He delayed payment on some pretext or other.
- 兼業☆【けんぎょう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously
noun:
- side business; job on the side
Kanji
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