Results, the bow-wow theory
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- 首都直下地震【しゅとちょっかじしん】
noun:
- Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
- 要点に触れる【ようてんにふれる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points
- 警察沙汰【けいさつざた】
noun:
- a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom
- 先☆【さき】前・先きirr.
noun / ~の noun / suffix noun / prefix:
- previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding
- point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
- head (of a line); front
- ahead; the other side
- the future; hereafter
- destination
- the other party
「私の後から来る方は私に優る方である。私より先におられたからである。」といったのはこの方の事です。 This was he of whom I said, "He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me."
この先の丸くなった鉛筆では書けない。 I can't write with this dull pencil.
ここから先には行けません。 You cannot go any farther.
２０マイル先に山の頂上が見えた。 We could see the summit of a mountain twenty miles away.
で、電話してみたらしいんだけど、その電話先の相手ってのが問題だったのよ。 And so it seems she tried phoning but it's who was on the other end of that phone that was the problem.
- ここ☆《此処・此所・茲・爰》
noun:
- here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
- these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
- these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから
ここに手のないナベがある。 Here is a pan without handles.
この町の人口はここ１０年間動きがない。 The population of this town has been static for the last ten years.
- 指物【さしもの】指し物・差物・差し物・挿物・挿し物
noun:
- cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
- hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
- colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism
- けり
auxiliary verb:
- indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
- indicates continuation from the past to the present
- end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧
- 一段落☆【いちだんらく・ひとだんらく】ひと段落【ひとだんらく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work)
noun:
- one paragraph
今回のプロジェクトが終わって、やっと一段落したって感じだね。 Now that the project has come to an end, I feel like I've finally come to a resting-place.
- 今月中に【こんげつちゅうに・こんげつじゅうに】
expression / adverb:
- by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month
- 蝦夷地【えぞち】
noun:
- Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
- Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地
- こなた・こんたobs.《此方》
noun:
- this way; here ［こなた］ ➜ こちら
- the person in question; he; she; him; her ［こなた］
- since (a time in the past); prior to (a time in the future) ［こなた］
pronoun:
- me ［こなた］
- you
- 腹の皮が突っ張れば目の皮がたるむ【はらのかわがつっぱればめのかわがたるむ】腹の皮が突っ張れば目の皮が弛む
expression:
- one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops [literal] - proverb
- 同国★【どうこく】
noun:
- the same country; the same province; the said country
あと数社の企業が同国の利益の高いペットフード市場に参入をねらっている。 Several more companies are moving to enter the lucrative pet food market of the country.
- 武徳殿【ぶとくでん】
noun:
- building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
- martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)
- 煙管乗車【キセルじょうしゃ】キセル乗車 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り
- 立て【だて】
suffix:
- particularly; especially
- indicates the number of horses or oxen drawing a carriage; indicates the number of oars on a boat
- indicates the number of movies, plays, etc. comprising a single program; indicates the number of items or methods used
- 土壇【どだん】
noun:
- dirt mound
- dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
- platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
- 馬鹿とはさみは使いよう【ばかとはさみはつかいよう】馬鹿と鋏は使い様
expression:
- everything comes in handy when used correctly; use the right tools for the right job; fools and (blunt) scissors have to be used in the right way - proverb
- おいしいところを持っていく【おいしいところをもっていく】美味しいところを持っていく・おいしい所を持っていく・美味しい所を持っていく Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to take a big bite
- to take the best part; to steal all the good parts; to steal the show
- ひらさら《平更》
adverb:
- earnestly; intently; determinedly; by all means - archaism
- ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") - archaism ➜ 一体全体【いったいぜんたい】
- 衆生済度【しゅじょうさいど】
noun:
- enlightenment of the masses; leading the masses on the path of enlightenment (Buddhism) - four character idiom
- 狐が落ちる【きつねがおちる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of the fox spirit; to be exorcised from the fox spirit
Kanji
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