► 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:
- 日本人一人当たりのビールの消費量 ⇨ The amount of beer consumed per capita in Japan
- 日本人は歯並びの悪い人が多い ⇨ Many Japanese have bad teeth (alignments)
- 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
- 日本人には馴染みが薄い野菜 ⇨ A vegetable Japanese have little familiarity with
- 日本人は魚介類を多く食べる ⇨ Japanese eat a lot of seafood
- 殆どの日本人は夜に入浴する ⇨ Most Japanese take bath in the evening
- 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
- 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
- 日本人は米を主食としてきた ⇨ Rice has been the main diet for Japanese
- 日本人の多くはこちらが攻めなければ誰も攻めてこないから国を積極的に守る必要は無いと信じている ⇨ Many Japanese believe if they do not invade others, others won’t invade them, so there is no need to defend their country actively
- 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
- 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
- 日本人は島国根性だとよく批判される ⇨ Japanese are often criticized to have insular mentalities
- 日本人の平均身長 ⇨ The average height of Japanese
- 日本人は米国人ほど頻繁に裁判をしない ⇨ Japanese don’t have trials as often as Americans