Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 山が見える【やまがみえる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to have the end in sight; to see the mountains [literal] - idiom
- 女は弱しされど母は強し【おんなはよわしされどはははつよし】女は弱し然れど母は強し
expression:
- though the woman is weak, the mother is strong - proverb
- 穴を埋める【あなをうめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to fill in a hole; to plug up a hole; to fill in for a vacancy
- あなた☆《貴方・貴女・貴男》
pronoun:
- you (referring to someone of equal or lower status) - 貴女 refers only to females and 貴男 refers only to males - polite language
- dear (what a wife calls a husband) [貴方・貴男]
- プラスα【プラスアルファ】+α
noun:
- a little more than usual; bribe money added to a regular fee; and then some - From English "plus alpha"
- 式年遷宮祭【しきねんせんぐうさい】
noun:
- fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
- 太玉串【ふとたまぐし】
noun:
- branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering) - poetic name - archaism ➜ 玉串
- 小の虫を殺して大の虫を助ける【しょうのむしをころしてだいのむしをたすける】
expression:
- to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb
- もとより☆《元より・固より・素より》
adverb:
- from the beginning; from the first; all along; originally
- of course
MPEG-4 AVC録画の実力テスト:使いやすさはもとより、画質・音質の実力も高い。 MPEC-4 AVC recording practical test: It was always easy to use, now the picture and sound quality is high too.
低賃金、劣悪な労働条件、一方的な首切りなどの経済・労働問題はもとより、各種の人道的問題までも引き起こしている。 Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
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