► 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:
- 日本人の殆どは近眼だ ⇨ Most of Japanese are nearsighted
- 日本人は魚介類を多く食べる ⇨ Japanese eat a lot of seafood
- 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
- 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
- 日本人は米を主食としてきた ⇨ Rice has been the main diet for Japanese
- 彼は最近の日本人は正しい日本語が話せないと嘆いている ⇨ He deplores that today’s Japanese can’t speak proper Japanese
- 事件を起こした張本人は全く平気な顔をしている ⇨ The very person who caused the problem is acting as if nothing has happened
- 普通の日本人は約三千の漢字を使う ⇨ Typical Japanese use about 3000 kanji, chinese characters
- 本人にその気が無ければどうしようもない ⇨ There is nothing you can do unless he himself, she,herself, wants to do it
- 日本人は白人ではない悲しさで結局欧米では差別を受ける ⇨ Japanese still receive discrimination in US and Europe because of the disadvantage of not being whites
- 日本人は普通夜に風呂に入る (ふろにはいる) ⇨ Japanese usually take a bath in the evening
- この料理は日本人の好みに合わない ⇨ This cuisine is not to the taste of Japanese
- 日本人は外敵に対する危機感が希薄だ ⇨ Japanese don’t have enough sense of danger against foreign enemies
- 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
- 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