► 名詞
考え [(3)かんがえ] meaning: idea rank: 1
☆ 良い考えがある ⇨ I have a good idea
☆ 説明を聞いて彼は考えを変えた ⇨ After listening to explanations, he changed his idea, mind
案 [(1)あん] meaning: idea rank: 2
☆ 私は彼の案に賛成だ ⇨ I’m for his idea, proposal
意 [い] [liter] meaning: idea rank: 2
☆ 「～」は「～」の意でよく使われる表現だ ⇨ “…” is an expression often used to mean “…”
見当 [(3)けんとう] [見当が付く] meaning: idea rank: 2
☆ 誰がやったか見当は付いている ⇨ I think I know who did this
見当 [(3)けんとう] [見当を付ける] meaning: idea rank: 2
☆ 警察は未だ犯人の見当を付けることも出来ないでいる ⇨ The police still doesn’t have a rough idea of who the suspect is
知恵 [(2)ちえ] meaning: idea rank: 2
☆ あなたの知恵を借りたい ⇨ I want to borrow, pick, your brain
観念 [(1)かんねん] [liter] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 彼には責任観念が無い ⇨ He doesn’t have the sense of responsibility
原案 [げんあん] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 彼がこの映画の原案を考え付いた ⇨ He came up with the original idea of this movie
構想 [こうそう] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 政府は教育改革の構想を発表した ⇨ The government announced an idea, concept, of the educational system reform (☛ A developed concept on complex system)
趣向 [しゅこう] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 彼女の新しい小説は今迄の作品とは趣向が異なっている ⇨ Her new novel is different in flavor from her previous works
趣向 [しゅこう] [趣向を凝らす] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 御祭りでは様々な趣向を凝らした催し物が開かれる ⇨ There are events with many different ideas (to entertain) infused in the festival
主旨 [(1)しゅし] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 時間が無いので主旨のみを説明します ⇨ We don’t have much time so I just explain the main ideas, gist of it
発想 [はっそう] meaning: idea rank: 3
☆ 天才にしか出来ない発想 ⇨ Ideas, inventiveness, only geniuses can come up with (☛ New ideas, or an ability to come up with new ideas)
浅知恵 [あさぢえ] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 素人の浅知恵 ⇨ Stupid ideas, would-be solutions, amateurs come up with
当たり [あたり] [coll] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 犯人の当たりは付いている ⇨ We have some ideas who is the perpetrator
猿知恵 [さるぢえ] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 日本には猿知恵で英語を使う連中が多い ⇨ In Japan there are many who use English with monkey-like, wrong, knowledge
雑念 [(2)ざつねん] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 頭から雑念が消えない ⇨ Useless, undesirable ideas won’t go away in my head (☛ Frivolous, useless thoughts, if not seriously harmful)
着眼点 [(4)ちゃくがんてん] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 彼の着眼点は天才的だ ⇨ The point he sees, his imagination, inventiveness, is genius (☛ Literally “A point you put your eyes to”.)
付け所 [つけどころ] [目の付け所] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 彼は凡人とは目の付け所が違う ⇨ The point he sees, his innovative thinking, is different from regular people (☛ Literally “A point you put your eyes to”.)
名案 [めいあん] meaning: idea rank: 4
☆ 私は名案を思い付いた ⇨ I came up with a great idea