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出処進退☆【しゅっしょしんたいshusshoshintai】出所進退

noun:

  • advancing and retreating; appearance and disappearance; one's daily activities; one's course of action; one's attitude - four character idiom

出処進退shusshoshintaiのno潔isagiyoさsaをwoわきまえているwakimaeteiru、とto彼kareはha言っているitteiruけれどkeredo、いざとなったら,izatonattaraどうdouだかdakaねne。 He always talks as though he knows how to handle himself but you never know how he'll act when the chips are down.

不見識☆【ふけんしきfukenshiki】 Inflection

adjectival noun / noun:

  • thoughtless; indiscreet; lacking in common sense; rashness; betraying one's lack of judgment (judgement); absurd; undignified; compromising; disgraceful
気味が悪い【きみがわるいkimigawarui】 Inflection

expression / adjective:

  • creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring; weird
うたわれるutawareru《謳われる》 Inflection

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

  • to be famed; to be extolled; to have one's praises sung; to be celebrated; to be admired ➜ 謳う
  • to be stipulated; to be declared; to be clearly expressed
含ます【ふくますfukumasu】 Inflection

godan ~す verb:

  • to soak; to saturate; to suckle; to make one hold something in the mouth; to include; to instruct; to make one understand
キレるKIREru Inflection

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

  • to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism
気味の悪い【きみのわるいkiminowarui】 Inflection

expression / adjective:

どっちみちdotchimichi《どっち道・何方道》どちみちdochimichi《何方道》

adverb:

  • anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever

どっちみちdotchimichi、関係kankeiないnaiよyo。 Either way, it's not important.

百点満点【ひゃくてんまんてんhyakutenmanten】

noun:

  • (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom
酒に弱い【さけによわいsakeniyowai】 Inflection

expression / adjective:

  • weak-headed; can't drink much; can't hold one's liquor; can't take one's drink; easily gets drunk
思いを巡らせる【おもいをめぐらせるomoiwomeguraseru】思いをめぐらせる Inflection

expression / ichidan verb:

  • to contemplate; to ponder; to think over; to turn over in one's mind; to reflect; to muse; to ruminate
季節の移り変わり【きせつのうつりかわりkisetsunoutsurikawari】

expression / noun:

びっくり仰天【びっくりぎょうてんbikkurigyouten】吃驚仰天【びっくりぎょうてんbikkurigyouten・きっきょうぎょうてんkikkyougyouten】 Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment
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一生懸命★【いっしょうけんめいisshoukenmei】一生けん命 Inflection

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

  • very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life - four character idiom ➜ 一所懸命

もっとmotto一生懸命isshoukenmei勉強benkyouすべきsubekiだったdattaのにnoni。 You should have worked harder.

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同一★【どういつdouitsu】 Inflection

~の noun / adjectival noun:

  • identical; same; one and the same; equal
  • fair; equal treatment; without discrimination

条件joukenはha多少tashou異なってkotonatteはhaいるiruもののmonono、我々warewareのno実験結果jikkenkekkaはhaロビンソンROBINSONのnoものmonoとto同一douitsuであるdearu。 Although the conditions are slightly different, the result of our experiment was identical with Robinson's.

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次々★【つぎつぎtsugitsugi】次次

adverb / ~と adverb / noun:

  • in succession; one by one

本屋hon'yaでde英語eigo関係kankeiのno本honをwo見つけるmitsukeruとto、次々tsugitsugiにni買ってkatteしまってshimatte、読まずyomazuにniいるiruのでnode、たまるtamaru一方ippouですdesu。 I always buy the English-language books I come across at bookstores. But since I never read them, all they do is pile up.

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いつまでもitsumademo☆《何時までも・何時迄も》

adverb:

  • forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
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少しも☆【すこしもsukoshimo】

expression / adverb:

  • anything of; not one bit (with negative sentence)

コックKOKKUさんsanはha少しもsukoshimoかけていないkaketeinai。 The cook hasn't put any on it.

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うがいugai☆《嗽・漱》 Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

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続々★【ぞくぞくzokuzoku】続続

adverb / ~と adverb:

  • successively; one after another

今ima私のwatashino家ieのno付近fukinにni住宅juutakuがga続々zokuzoku建っているtatteiru。 In my neighborhood, houses are now being built one after another.

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歯磨き☆【はみがきhamigaki】歯磨 Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • dental brushing; brushing one's teeth

noun:

  • dentifrice; toothpaste; tooth powder

歯磨きhamigakiをwoしshiなさいnasai。 Clean your teeth.

歯磨きhamigakiはhaどこdoko？ Where's the toothpaste?

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思いつく☆【おもいつくomoitsuku】思い付く☆ Inflection

godan ~く verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

  • to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to be struck with an idea
  • to remember; to recall

素晴らしいsubarashii考えkangaeをwo思いつくomoitsukuのnoはha難しいmuzukashii。 It's difficult to have great ideas.

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担ぐ☆【かつぐkatsugu】 Inflection

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

  • to shoulder; to carry on one's shoulder
  • to nominate for a position; to choose as a representative
  • to take (someone) for a ride; to deceive; to take in
  • to be caught up in superstition

俺oreはha家族kazoku全員zen'inにni見送られmiokurareながらnagara、旅tabi支度jitakuをwo整えたtotonoetaザックZAKKUをwo担ぐkatsugu。 Being seen off by my whole family I shouldered a rucksack, stocked with my trip supplies.

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重なる☆【かさなるkasanaru】 Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
  • to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
  • to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously

私のwatashino誕生tanjou日biとtoあなたanataのno誕生日tanjoubiがga、偶然guuzen重なるkasanaru。 My birthday coincides with yours.

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あれこれarekore☆《彼此・彼是》かれこれkarekore・ひしhishi《彼此》

adverb / pronoun:

  • this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

adverb:

  • around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost ［かれこれ］

もうmouかれこれkarekore１０時jiですdesu。 It is almost ten o'clock.

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