My words

南半球

みなみはんきゅう

southern hemisphere

高級

こうきゅう

high class, high grade, high rank, seniority

責任

せきにん

duty, responsibility (incl. supervision of staff), liability, onus

写る

うつる

to be photographed, to be projected

視点

してん

opinion, point of view, visual point

取り立てる

とりたてる

to collect (debts), to dun, to exact, to extort, to appoint, to promote, to give patronage, to emphasize, to focus on, to call attention to

慣用句

かんようく

idiomatic usage, common usage

悪化

あっか

(suffer) deterioration, growing worse, aggravation, degeneration, corruption

進出

しんしゅつ

advance (into a new market or stage of progress), launching (a new career or venture), expanding (into a new market), stepping forward, emerging

衰える

おとろえる

to become weak, to decline, to wear, to abate, to decay, to wither, to waste away

たまらない

cant help it

治まる

おさまる

to be at peace, to clamp down, to lessen (storm, terror, anger)

気になる

きになる

to be on ones mind, to worry one, to care about, to be bothered by, to feel uneasy, to be anxious, to feel inclined, to fancy, to like, to catch ones eye

気にする

きにする

to mind (negative nuance), to care about, to worry, to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

受け取る

うけとる

to receive, to get, to accept, to take, to interpret, to understand

ついこの間

ついこのあいだ

just the other day, quite recently

浮く

うく

to float, to become merry, to be cheerful, to become loose, to become unsteady, to feel out of it, to be cut off (e.g. from those around you), to feel out of place, to be frivolous, to be uncertain, to have (time, money, etc.) left over, to be saved (e.g. money), to have no basis, to be unreliable

遺産

いさん

inheritance, bequest, legacy, heritage

三角関係

さんかくかんけい

love triangle, eternal triangle

花粉症

かふんしょう

hay fever, pollinosis (allergy to pollen)

杉

すぎ スギ

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

出る杭は打たれる

でるくいはうたれる

the nail that sticks out gets hammered in, the best policy is to keep your head down

食品

しょくひん

food, food products, foodstuffs

評価

ひょうか

valuation, estimation, assessment, evaluation, rating, to value, to assess, to rate, to estimate value, to appreciate, to value highly, to acknowledge the value (of something), evaluation

患者

かんじゃ

(a) patient, patients

普及

ふきゅう

diffusion, spread, popularization, promulgation, familiarization

感動的

Kandō-teki

Moving

不景気

ふけいき

business recession, hard times, depression, gloom, sullenness, cheerlessness

気が散る

きがちる

to get distracted, to jump off the track

散る

ちる

to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves), to scatter, to be dispersed, to disappear, to dissolve, to break up, to spread, to run, to blur, to die a noble death