► 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:
- 殆どの日本人は踊るのに慣れていない ⇨ Most Japanese are not used to dancing
- 最近の日本人は正しい日本語が使えず嘆かわしい ⇨ It is deplorable that today’s Japanese cannot speak and write proper Japanese
- 残留日本人 ⇨ Japanese stayed in foreign countries (after WW2)
- 彼はドイツ人と日本人のハーフだ ⇨ He is half German and half Japanese
- 本人がやる気を起こさない限りどう仕様もない ⇨ There is nothing you can do unless he himself gets motivated
- 日本人には自虐を美徳と考える人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese regard self-torture as a virtue
- 日本人は儒教の影響を強く受けている ⇨ Japanese are strongly influenced by confucianism
- 在外日本人子女 ⇨ Japanese children who live overseas
- 日本人は何でも浪花節で誤魔化そうとする傾向にある ⇨ Japanese tend to get carried away with emotions with everything
- 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
- 日本人の殆どは近眼だ ⇨ Most of Japanese are nearsighted
- 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
- 日本人は歯並びの悪い人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese have bad teeth (alignments)
- 日本人は自虐的な自己批判を美徳と考える傾向にある ⇨ Japanese tend to regard self-torturing self criticism as a virtue
- 日本人は見ず知らずの人に殆ど話しかけない ⇨ Japanese hardly talk to someone he/she doesn’t know