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- うなされる《魘される》 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to have a nightmare
- to make a noise during a nightmare
- 単位を落とす【たんいをおとす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to fail to earn a credit
- to fail to make the grade
- 仕切り直し【しきりなおし】しきり直し・仕切りなおし
noun:
- getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
- starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one
- 風林火山【ふうりんかざん】
expression:
- as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain - four character idiom
- 昔は昔今は今【むかしはむかしいまはいま】
expression:
- let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb
- 六欲天【ろくよくてん】
noun:
- the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界
- 三者三様【さんしゃさんよう】
noun:
- each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom
- 三人三様【さんにんさんよう】 Inflection
noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:
- each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way
- 三舎を避ける【さんしゃをさける】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom
- 使いっ走り【つかいっぱしり】使いっぱしり Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else
- 沖縄返還協定【おきなわへんかんきょうてい】
noun:
- Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands
- 文は人なり【ぶんはひとなり】
expression:
- the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb
- 応変能力【おうへんのうりょく】
noun:
- ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment - four character idiom
- 大叫喚地獄【だいきょうかんじごく】
noun:
- Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism - Buddhism term ➜ 奈落【ならく】
- 負け犬☆【まけいぬ】
noun:
- dejected loser; dog that has lost a fight (with its tail between its legs) [literal]
- unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - slang - derogatory term ➜ お一人様【おひとりさま】
- 慰安婦【いあんふ】
noun:
- women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦
- デスクトップ・ディスクトップirr.
noun:
- desktop
- desktop computer - IT term
- desktop of a computer (the primary screen for most graphical-based computer operating systems) - IT term
- 心がこもる【こころがこもる】心が籠もる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be thoughtful (of a gift, etc.); to be from the heart; to be made with loving care
- 嫁に行く【よめにいく・よめにゆく】 Inflection
expression / godan -いく/-ゆく verb (spec.):
- to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family) ➜ 嫁ぐ【とつぐ】
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