► 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:
- 現代の日本人は殆ど洋服しかきない ⇨ Modern Japanese hardly wear anything but western-style clothes
- 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
- 在外日本人子女 ⇨ Japanese children who live overseas
- 大統領本人がそのような式典に参列するのは極めて異例なことだ ⇨ It is extremely uncommon that the president himself attends such a ceremony
- 日本人は多くの英単語を誤用している ⇨ Japanese use many English words wrong
- 日本人の平均身長 ⇨ The average height of Japanese
- 日本人独特の行動様式 ⇨ The behavior styles, patterns, unique to Japanese
- 日本人は愛情の表現に抵抗がある人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese are reluctant, feel awkward, to express affections
- 普通の日本人は約三千の漢字を使う ⇨ Typical Japanese use about 3000 kanji, chinese characters
- アメリカにいる日本人同胞 ⇨ Japanese compatriots living in the US
- 日本人には外国が攻撃をしてくるという危機感が全く無い ⇨ Japanese have no sense of danger that foreign countries will attack someday
- 日本人には戦争の思い出は風化した ⇨ The memory of war has been eroded for Japanese
- 日本人は儒教の影響を強く受けている ⇨ Japanese are strongly influenced by confucianism
- 本人がやる気にならないと、やる気を出さないと、どうしようもない ⇨ There is nothing you can do unless he himself wants to do it
- 日本人は歯が不揃いのままの人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese have unaligned teeth (uncorrected)