► 名詞
本人 [(1)ほんにん] meaning: self rank: 1
☆ 彼本人はどう思っているの？ ⇨ What does he himself think of it?
☆ 本人に聞いてよ ⇨ Why don’t you ask him/her direct?
☆ 証明書は本人が申請しなくてはいけない ⇨ The applicant must apply for the license personally
More examples:
- 日本人には西欧の料理は大味と感じられる事が多い ⇨ Western cuisines often feel lacking delicacy for Japanese
- 日本人離れした容貌 ⇨ A face, facial features, that are not typical of a Japanese
- 日本人が輸入する英語は殆ど間違って使われている ⇨ Most of English words imported by Japanese are used wrong
- 当の本人は全く気にしていないようだ ⇨ He himself, she herself, doesn’t seem to mind at all
- 日本人は自分達で自分の国を守るという意識が薄い ⇨ Japaneses have little sense to defend their own nation themselves
- この料理は日本人の嗜好に合わない ⇨ This cuisine won’t meet the taste of Japanese
- 日本人の殆どは米を主食としている ⇨ The vast majority of Japanese eat rice as a staple diet
- 普通の日本人は約三千の漢字を使う ⇨ Typical Japanese use about 3000 kanji, chinese characters
- 日本人は白人ではない悲しさで結局欧米では差別を受ける ⇨ Japanese still receive discrimination in US and Europe because of the disadvantage of not being whites
- 私はそれは又聞きしただけで、本人から聞いたわけじゃない ⇨ I heard it from a third person, not from the first person
- 日本人は歯が不揃いのままの人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese have unaligned teeth (uncorrected)
- 日本人一人当たりのビールの消費量 ⇨ The amount of beer consumed per capita in Japan
- 事件を起こした張本人は全く平気な顔をしている ⇨ The very person who caused the problem is acting as if nothing has happened
- 本人にその気が無ければどうしようもない ⇨ There is nothing you can do unless he himself, she,herself, wants to do it
- 日本人は馴染みの薄い料理 ⇨ A dish that is not familiar to Japanese