Here are a couple of interesting words I have come across this week in my readings. Take a look, and feel free to add to this list in the comments section. I'll try and do a vocabulary entry once a week with daily updates.
自業自得 【じごうじとく】paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions)
早とちり 【はやとちり】 jumping to a conclusion (see also 早合点【はやがてん】)
語呂合わせ; 語路合わせ; 語呂合せ; 語路合せ 【ごろあわせ】 rhyming game; play on words; pun
ひょっとして by any chance; (should) it happen (that)
泡銭 【あぶくぜに】 easy money
道理で 【どうりで】 indeed; it's no wonder
朝飯前 【あさめしまえ】 a trivial matter; a cinch to do; it's a piece of cake
先刻承知 【せんこくしょうち】being already (well) aware; to know something all along
9.7.06
真っ最中 【まっさいちゅう】 in the very act of doing; midst; middle of; height of
自縄自縛 【じじょうじばく】 being caught in one's own trap; put one's foot in one's mouth; be caught in a web of one's own making
うつ病 【うつびょう】 melancholia; depression
号外 【ごうがい】 newspaper extra/special edition
麻痺 【まひ】 paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
反省 【はんせい】 reflection; reconsideration; introspection; contemplation; self-examination; soul-searching
蒸発 【じょうはつ】 evaporation; unexplained disappearance
ネズミ捕り 【ねずみとり】 (1)rat poison; (2) mousetrap; rattrap; (3) speed trap
9.8.06
生計 【せいけい】 livelihood; living; bread and butter (を立てる=make a living)
6 comments:
hey, i came here from the Jref website. i am going to take 3級 this december but am already studying for 2級 next year.
i like how you are studying idioms and 4文字熟語 as well. one that i know is 針小棒大 (しんしょうぼうだい) which i believe means to "exaggerate" something.
ill try to help with your blog as i am sure it will help me
Great to have you on board, Yorkii! I remember reading some of your posts. Hope to see you around more often. Check for updates!
Another one for you: 自縄自縛 (じじょうじばく). "Hoist by your own petard", i.e. "falling into your own trap"
The best way to learn 四字熟語 in my opinion is by playing もっと脳を鍛える on the DS.
-Tae Kim
I wanna try that. Saw an old lady at disney sea playing it while waiting in line. It looks HARD!
My girlfriend has a game on her keitai that is like that. It's pretty simple, but it's difficult...if that makes any sense!
Something that would be great if you wrote about in this blog would be "ending" verbs or whatever you call them.
Like ~hanasu, ~tsuzukeru, ~hajimeru and so on..
Jonathan
shinryuu.jp [at] gmail [dot] com
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