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- 易者身の上知らず【えきしゃみのうえしらず】
expression:
- people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb
- 退ける☆【のける・どける】除ける【のける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside
- to remove; to exclude; to take away [除ける]
- to set aside; to keep apart [のける]
- to remove (someone) from the group; to shun [のける]
ichidan verb / auxiliary verb:
- to do well despite difficulties; to accomplish despite adversity [のける] - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
- to do resolutely; to do boldly [のける] - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
その自転車をどけて下さい。 Get the bicycle out of the way.
私たちは鞄をどけて、老婦人が座れるように場所をあけた。 We moved our bags to make room for the elderly lady to sit down.
じゃまなのでその椅子をのけて下さい。 Please remove that chair because it is in the way.
- かねる☆《兼ねる》 Inflection
suffix / ichidan verb:
- to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do ➜ 兼ねない
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features
- to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
- to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
- to think of the future (as well as the present)
こういう事情ですから、残念ながら、せっかくのご招待をお受けいたしかねるのです。 As such is the case, I am sorry I can't accept your kind invitation.
- 筋★【すじ】条
noun:
- muscle; tendon; sinew
- vein; artery
- fiber; fibre; string
- line; stripe; streak
- reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
- plot; storyline
- lineage; descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude; talent
- source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
- social position; status - archaism
suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:
- on (a river, road, etc.); along
suffix / counter:
- counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism
物語の筋はある島を舞台に展開する。 The action of the story takes place on an island.
私はそのニュースを確かな筋から得た。 I got the news from a reliable source.
きみが言っていることは筋があまりよく通っていない。 There isn't much logic in what you're saying.
その小説の筋はわからない。 I don't understand this novel's plot.
私は去年、それを別の筋から聞いた。 I heard about it from another source last year.
- 切れる☆【きれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
- to be injured
- to wear out; to be worn out
- to break; to burst; to collapse
- to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
- to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
- to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
- to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
- to cut well; to be sharp
- to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
- to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
- to dry off
- to curve; to veer
- to shuffle (cards)
- to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる
auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:
- to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone
二人の子供は綱が切れるまで引っ張りあった。 The two children pulled at the rope until it broke.
100メートル、10秒切れる? Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
- 通る☆【とおる】徹る・透る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
- to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
- to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
- to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
- to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
- to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
- to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
- to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
- to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
- to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
- to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
- to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
- to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism
suffix / godan ~る verb:
- to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb
容易に試験に通ると思う。 I expect her to pass the examination easily.
法案は間違いなく通るよ。 This bill is safe to pass.
富んでいるものが神の国に入るよりは、らくだが針の穴を通る方がもっと易しい。 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
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