Results, jack of all trade and master of none
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- ジャータカ
noun:
- Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit
- 団体職員【だんたいしょくいん】
noun:
- employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)
- 中☆【ちゅう】
noun / prefix / suffix:
- medium; average; middle
noun:
- moderation
- middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
- China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
- volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻
suffix noun:
いとこたちは2、3日中にくるでしょう。 My cousins are coming in a few days.
うわさの正体をつきとめるために、会社中を調べ回っているんだ。 I've been nosing around the office trying to find out the news.
その学校は、中・高一貫校だということを頭の片隅にでも入れておいて下さい。 Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school.
これらの数字が示すのは、大学1年生の5人中3人が政治に無関心だということだ。 These figures indicate three in five college first-year students are indifferent to politics.
10人中3人はビデオを持っている。 Three out of ten persons have a video.
そのピアニストの演奏中、彼らは一心に耳を傾けた。 They were all ears while the pianist was playing.
- 飲み口【のみくち・のみぐち】呑み口・呑口・飲口
noun:
- taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
- someone who enjoys alcohol
- place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
- shape of one's mouth when drinking
- tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち
- 師【し】
noun:
- teacher; master; one's mentor
noun / suffix:
- religious leader
suffix:
- specialist
noun:
- five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army) - archaism
彼は彼らの師と仰がれた。 He was respected as their teacher.
中学校時代に、入院中の祖父が病院の看護師に対して「ありがとう、助かるよ」とよく声をかけていたことがとても印象的でした。 In my secondary school days, I was much impressed by how my hospitalised grandfather would often tell the nurses there, "Thank you, I appreciate your help."
- 騙る【かたる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
- to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)
- ケツ持ち【ケツもち】
noun:
- person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
- member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族
- 一分一厘【いちぶいちりん】
noun:
- (not even) a bit of; (not even) a hint of; (not) an iota of - four character idiom
- かじか《鰍・杜父魚》とふぎょ《杜父魚》カジカ
noun:
- sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
- Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)
- 四公六民【しこうろくみん】
noun:
- land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom
- 惑い箸【まどいばし】
noun:
- hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸
- 迷い箸【まよいばし】
noun:
- hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸
- 沖縄米兵少女暴行事件【おきなわべいへいしょうじょぼうこうじけん】
noun:
- 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa
- 読み方☆【よみかた】
noun:
- pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji)
- way of reading (out loud)
- interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading
私は彼の名前の読み方がわからない。 I don't know how to pronounce his name.
私たちは英語の読み方を学びました。 We learned how to read English.
我々の先祖は星の読み方を知っていた。 Our ancestors knew how to read the stars.
- 宮中三殿【きゅうちゅうさんでん】
noun:
- the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace
- モニ
noun:
- (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター
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