► 成句
奇 [き] [奇を衒う] meaning: show off rank: 3
☆ 彼は奇を衒った所が全く無い ⇨ He never does any theatrics to get attention. He has zero pretension, affectation (☛ Do something unusual to show off one’s abilities, or attract attention)
More examples:
- 我々は敵の裏をかいて奇襲をかけた ⇨ We outsmarted our enemy and ambushed them
- 主人公の奇妙な冒険と運命を描いた物語 ⇨ A story about the strange, mind-blowing, adventure and fate of the protagonist
- 彼は「奇跡を呼ぶ男」と呼ばれている ⇨ He is called “a man who brings about a miracle”
- 彼女は奇抜な服装をするのが好きだ ⇨ She likes unique, unusual, fashion
- 彼は奇人で通っている ⇨ He is well known as an eccentric
- 奇跡は起こらなかった ⇨ A miracle didn’t happen
- 人は彼の障害を好奇の目で見るだけだった ⇨ People only rubbernecked at his disability
- 子供の好奇心を育てる教育 ⇨ Education that nourishes children’s curiosity
- 彼等は敵の奇襲に泡を食った (あわをくう) ⇨ They ate bubbles, got caught completely off guard, by the enemy’s ambush
- 事情を知らない人達には奇妙に映るだろう ⇨ It must look strange to those who don’t know the background
- 彼等は敵を奇襲した ⇨ They launched a surprise attack on the enemy
- 彼は奇しくも彼の父親と同じ日に死んだ ⇨ By a strange coincidence he died on the same day his father had died
- 彼女は事故で奇跡的に無傷だった ⇨ She was miraculously unharmed in the accident
- 彼等は奇策で相手に一泡吹かせた ⇨ They used a trick play and stunned the opponent
- 奇術師 ⇨ A magician