► 名詞
自己 [(1)じこ] [liter] meaning: self rank: 2
☆ 彼女は自己の持つ世界記録を更新した ⇨ She improved on the world record she had held herself
☆ 彼女は自己記録を更新した ⇨ She set a new personal best record
More examples:
- 彼の音楽は自己満だ ⇨ His music doesn’t serve any other purpose than pleasing himself
- 彼のやっていることは自己満足のためだけで、実際は何の意味も無い ⇨ What he is doing is utterly pointless, other than satisfying his own vanity
- 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
- 彼の自己中心的な行動 ⇨ His self-centered behavior
- 彼は自己陶酔している ⇨ He is ecstatic about himself, narcissistic
- 自己顕示の過ぎる人 ⇨ Someone who is excessively ostentatious
- 皆さん一人ずつ自己紹介して下さい ⇨ Everybody, please take turns and introduce yourself to others
- 私の料理は自己流だ ⇨ My cooking is self-taught. My cooking is my inventions
- なんて自己中な奴だ！ ⇨ What a selfish bastard!
- 彼は絶対に成功すると自己暗示をかけた ⇨ He made himself believe he would be successful
- 私は大失敗して自己嫌悪に陥った ⇨ I made a huge blunder and fell into self-hate
- 自己を顕示する欲が強い人 ⇨ People who have strong desires to make themselves conspicuous