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自己  [(1)じこ]  [liter]    meaning:  self  rank: 2
☆ 彼女は自己の持つ世界記録更新した ⇨ She improved on the world record she had held herself
☆ 彼女は自己記録更新した ⇨ She set a new personal best record


More examples:
  • さん一人ずつ自己紹介してさい ⇨ Everybody, please take turns and introduce yourself to others
  • 自己顕示ぎる ⇨ Someone who is excessively ostentatious
  • 失敗して自己嫌悪陥った ⇨ I made a huge blunder and fell into self-hate
  • 日本人自虐的な自己批判美徳える傾向にある ⇨ Japanese tend to regard self-torturing self criticism as a virtue
  • 自己を顕示する ⇨ People who have strong desires to make themselves conspicuous
  • の自己中心的行動 ⇨ His self-centered behavior
  • は自己陶酔している ⇨ He is ecstatic about himself, narcissistic
  • 音楽は自己満だ ⇨ His music doesn’t serve any other purpose than pleasing himself
  • のやっていることは自己満足のためだけで、実際意味い ⇨ What he is doing is utterly pointless, other than satisfying his own vanity
  • 料理は自己流だ ⇨ My cooking is self-taught. My cooking is my inventions
  • 絶対成功すると自己暗示をかけた ⇨ He made himself believe he would be successful
  • なんて自己中なだ! ⇨ What a selfish bastard!