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- 北の対【きたのたい】
noun:
- northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife) ➜ 対の屋
- 本幕【ほんまく】
noun:
- fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
- curtain with a family crest
- 寄らば大樹の陰【よらばたいじゅのかげ】
expression:
- Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good
- 犬に論語【いぬにろんご】
expression:
- wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom
- 送客【そうきゃく】
noun:
- sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
- sending customers (somebody's way)
- 青天白日旗【せいてんはくじつき】
noun:
- Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
- 英雄★【えいゆう】
noun:
- hero; heroine; great person
- Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804)
- Heroic Polonaise (Chopin) - abbreviation
- 心神耗弱者【しんしんこうじゃくしゃ】
noun:
- person of diminished capacity (e.g. drugs, alcohol, mental retardation, etc.) ➜ 心神耗弱
- 人外【じんがい・にんがい】
noun / ~の noun:
- uninhabited area [じんがい]
- acting inhumanly; inhuman person
- nonhuman life (usu. sentient) [じんがい] - slang
- 迂拙【うせつ】
noun:
- poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
- self deprecating first person pronoun
- 念者【ねんしゃ・ねんじゃ】
noun:
- careful and thorough person
- older male in an homosexual relationship [ねんじゃ] ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
- 雲の上の存在【くものうえのそんざい】
expression / noun:
- god-like existence; person far higher (in hierarchy, etc.) than oneself
- 要援護者【ようえんごしゃ】
noun:
- person requiring special help (usu. seniors, infants, etc. in disaster scenarios) ➜ 要援護【ようえんご】
- 百害あって一利なし【ひゃくがいあっていちりなし】百害あって一利無し
expression:
- all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain [literal] - idiom
- 開講☆【かいこう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- holding a course (of lectures); offering a course
- beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course
1年次開講の『大学生のための表現法』と2年次開講の『食品化学』の2科目を担当しています。 I'm teaching two courses, year one's "Self-expression for University Students" and year two's "Food Chemistry".
- 一笑千金【いっしょうせんきん】
expression:
- A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom
- ゴールイン☆・ゴール・イン Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reaching the winning post; reaching the finish; making the goal - From English "goal in"
- getting married - colloquialism
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