Results, cry of the wild goose
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- 本末転倒☆【ほんまつてんとう】本末顛倒 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom
あなたの言っていることは本末転倒だと思わないかい? Don't you think you're putting the cart before the horse?
- 讃談【さんだん】讃歎・讚談・讚歎 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- praising Buddha; sermon - Buddhism term
- praise (second of the five gates of mindfulness) - Buddhism term ➜ 五念門
- style of Buddhistic song of praise, usually praising Buddha, the Bodhisattva, the Buddhistic teachings, etc. - Buddhism term
- rumor; rumour; hearsay - archaism
- 臣籍降下【しんせきこうか】
noun:
- (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom
- 政所【まんどころ・まどころ・まつりごとどころ】
noun:
- official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
- titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
- government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
- clerk working for large temples and shrines
- 円高★【えんだか】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- appreciation of the yen; strong yen; strengthening of the yen; high-valued yen; exchange in favor of the yen (favour)
この円高のうちに、海外旅行をしたいものです。 I would like to travel in foreign countries while the yen is strong.
- 条鰭綱【じょうきこう】
noun:
- Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25,000 species of fish)
- 縦横家【じゅうおうか・しょうおうか】
noun:
- School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China ➜ 諸子百家【しょしひゃっか】
- 上☆【じょう】
suffix noun:
- from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
- aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above
noun:
noun / prefix:
- superior quality; best; top; high class
- going up
- governmental; imperial
- presenting; showing
prefix:
- ana- (medical, biol.)
会社は税金上の目的で本社所在地を香港に移した。 The company moved its corporate domicile to Hong Kong for tax purposes.
あなたには禍の前兆である壁上の書きものが読めるかもしれないが、私にはちんぷんかんぷんだ。 You may be able to read the handwriting on the wall, but it is Greek to me.
理論上、理論と実行の間には何の違いもないが、実際上違いはあるものだ。 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
- 畿内☆【きない】
noun:
- territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto
- 鶏口となるも牛後となる勿れ【けいこうとなるもぎゅうごとなるなかれ】鶏口となるも牛後となるなかれ
expression:
- better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb
- 矢先☆【やさき】
noun:
- arrowhead
- target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
- the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に
叔父は新しい冒険的事業を始める矢先だ、と言っている。 My uncle says he's about to embark on a new business venture.
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