A: Ya, I had a sleepless night yesterday, Iwillgo back straight to sleep today. Q: Chuūgoku ni kaettara, dō shimasu ka? 「中国に帰ったら、どうしますか。」 Q: What are you going to do once you are back to China? A:Daigakude nihon norekishio benkyō surutsumoridesu 「大学で日本...
This poem expresses the personal feelings of Sadanushi who, while experiencing a sleepless night in the palace, imagines with empathy how terribly the visiting ambassadors from Parhae must be missing their homeland. Compared to such a poem that excels at expressing heartfelt emotion, the “Kayō...
NEZARU 寝ざる (literally “avoid sleep, sleepless, no sleep”)1. NERU 寝 is the word for sleep; word stem is read “ne” ネ2. ZARU ざる means “not;” a homophone for monkey 申 (saru)3. Combining ネ and 申 (1 + 2) yields the term KAMI 神Thus, once again, monkeys are ...
every scrap of material of defenses to be blown to pieces to prevent capture by the enemy, and no question of surrender to be entertained until after protracted fighting among the ruins of Singapore City.” It was the first use of the word “surrender...
and how long they had waited through the cold of winter and the heat of summer, sleepless and roofless through all weathers, without food and without rest, in the ardent hope of winning her, and they were willing to consider this long vigil as pleasure if she would but give them one ch...
and songs – especially by the same artist – tend to use the same words frequently. Maybe they're not always the most useful words. After all, there are only so many times you're going to need to talk about the stars in the sky or a sleepless night in real life, unlike Sekai no...
And if he were to sum up his hometown in just three words? “I’d say vibrant, sleepless (it NEVER sleeps) and just a mega big cosmopolitan city. Sorry, that’s definitely not three words!” READ MORE: Traffic lights, tacos and moustaches – Getting to ...
No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured...
sisolationistpositiontowardstheUnitedStates.ThisradicaldiplomaticeffortconcludedwithareturnvoyageayearlaterandendedJapan’sself-imposedisolationfromtheWesternworld.Historians,inanattempttoexplainthemotivationsbehindPerry’svoyage,citeanAmericancommercialdesireforChinesetradeasthemainreasonbehindtheJapaneseExpedition’s...
Almost 2,500 games were created by some sleepless devs, an all-time high for the event. Take a second and think about that: Developers made 2,500 games over a weekend. I was just happy I got my laundry done.Even better: all of these games are free. You can scroll through the ...