Results, one-upmanship
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- 強【きょう】
suffix noun:
- a little over; a little more than
- powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful
- 目を覚ます【めをさます】目をさます Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to wake up
- to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened
- お荷物【おにもつ】御荷物
noun:
- baggage; luggage - polite language ➜ 荷物
- burden; albatross around one's neck; excess baggage
- 送る★【おくる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
- to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
- to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
- to spend (time); to live one's life
- to pass (down the line)
- to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名
わたしは手紙で願書を送るよう決めた。 I wrote off for an application form.
空港まで送るよ。 I'll drive you to the airport.
いかにも敬虔なるクリスチャンが送る、礼節重き言葉です。 So characteristic of what a pious Christian would say, this courteous phrase.
- 家内☆【かない・やうちobs.】
noun:
- (my) wife [かない] - humble language
- inside the home; one's family
家内は海外旅行中で、よく電話をかけてくる。 My wife often telephones me when I'm traveling in another country.
- 夫婦★【ふうふ・めおと・みょうと】
noun:
- married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair
prefix noun:
- his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman) [めおと] ➜ 夫婦茶碗
- 追いつく☆【おいつく】追い付く☆・追い着く・追付く・追着く・おい付く Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach
- to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
- いずれ☆・いづれirr.《何れ・孰れ》
adverb / pronoun:
- where; which; who
- anyway; anyhow; at any rate
adverb:
- sooner or later; eventually; one of these days; at some future date or time
pronoun:
- both; either; any; all; whichever
いずれどこかに落ち着いて身を固めるつもりだが、まだまだだ。 Eventually I'd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet.
誤解され得るものはいずれすべて誤解されるであろう。 Anything that can be misunderstood will be.
- 損なう☆【そこなう】害う・損う☆irr. Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to harm; to hurt; to injure; to damage; to spoil; to mar
auxiliary verb / godan ~う verb:
- to fail to ...; to miss one's opportunity to ...
夜更かししていると健康を損なうよ。 You must not stay up late, or you will hurt your health.
- たるむ☆・たゆむ《弛む》 Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
- to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in
- よろしく☆《宜しく・宜敷くateji》
expression / adverb:
- well; properly; suitably
- best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of; please do
- just like ...; as though one were ... - as ...よろしく
- by all means; of course - as よろしく…べし
- 揃い【そろい】
noun / ~の noun:
- set; suit; uniform collection; matching items
suffix noun:
- entirely; all; every one; nothing but - Often as ぞろい
みなさまがお揃いになったので、送別会を始められます。 Now that we are all here, we can start the farewell party.
- 在りし日★【ありしひ】ありし日
noun / ~の noun:
- past days; bygone days; days of yore; the olden days
~の noun / noun:
- while still alive; during one's lifetime
- 待ち☆【まち】
noun / suffix noun:
- waiting; waiting time
- wait tile; tile which would complete one's hand - Mahjong term
- 正体☆【しょうたい】
noun:
- true character; true form; true colors (colours); identity; truth (of a mystery, phenomenon, etc.); origin
- consciousness; one's senses
- 射止める☆【いとめる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to shoot dead; to bring down (an animal)
- to win (a prize, someone's heart, etc.); to make one's own
彼には彼女のハートを射止める見込みはないだろう。 He will have no chance of winning her heart.
- にも☆
expression:
- also; too; not ... either; as well; even
- (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise - after the volitional or dictionary form of verb
- 空転☆【くうてん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- racing (an engine); idling (an engine) ➜ 空回り
- going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels
- 玉砕☆【ぎょくさい】玉摧 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; honorable death; death without surrender
- trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love [玉砕] - colloquialism
- 丸裸☆【まるはだか】まる裸
noun / ~の noun:
- being stark-naked
- having no possessions; losing all one's belongings
男女数十人の研究生が、モデル台に立つた一人の男を――丸裸の男を写生してゐた。 Dozens of male and female students were drawing a lone, completely nude male model standing on a platform.
- 代替わり☆【だいがわり】代替り・代変わり・代変り・代替irr.
noun:
- taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
- subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
- 振りかざす☆【ふりかざす】振り翳ざす・振り翳す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to raise (esp. overhead); to brandish (e.g. sword); to flourish
- to wield (e.g. power, authority); to proclaim one's principles
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