► 名詞
脚 [(2)あし] meaning: leg rank: 1
☆ 彼女はとても長くて綺麗な脚をしている ⇨ She has beautiful long legs (☛ Thigh and shank, excluding foot)
► 接尾辞
脚 [きゃく] meaning: furniture rank: 4
☆ 椅子十脚 (じゅっきゃく) ⇨ Ten chairs (☛ The counting word for furniture with legs)
More examples:
- 彼女は脚が長い ⇨ With her legs are long. She has long legs
- 彼は敵の政治家を失脚させる策略を巡らした ⇨ He came up with a scheme to discredit his rival politician
- この運動は脚を引き締める ⇨ This exercise tones legs
- 医者は彼の壊死した脚を切断した ⇨ The doctor amputated his leg that suffered severe infection
- 体操選手は脚を180度広げることが出来る ⇨ Gymnasts can spread their legs 180 degrees
- 彼の議論は事実に立脚していない ⇨ His argument is not based on facts
- 実際の事件を脚色したテレビドラマ ⇨ A TV drama screenplayed from an actual incident
- 橋の脚にヒビが入っていることが判明した ⇨ It has been discovered there is a crack in the column of the bridge
- その話はだいぶ脚色されているような気がする ⇨ I feel that story has been modified, exaggerated
- 彼女はモデルのような脚線美を誇る ⇨ She boasts model-like beautiful legs
- 彼は当時新進の政治家として脚光を浴びた ⇨ At the time he was in the limelight as a new-wave politician
- 人生を夫婦二人三脚で頑張る ⇨ Live through life with husband and wife cooperating
- 彼は一度失脚したが復権した ⇨ He once lost the power but regained it later
- フルシチョフは1964年に失脚した ⇨ Khrushchev lost his power, was ousted, in 1964
- 彼女は彼の脚にすがりついた ⇨ She clung to his leg