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- 悪意なく akui
- 悪循環 akujunkan
- ありのままの arinomamano
- 当たり障りのない atari
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<A>:
- without any malice/malicious intent; benignly; harmless deception;
- negative spiral; vicious cycle;
- (you should just) let it go; let the past go; stop worrying about it; forget about it and move on; stop talking or thing about it; by oneself; the way I am/you are; (you are amazing) just the way you are;
- bland; flat; insipid; flavorless; savorless; vapid; smooth; suave;
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- ばらばらな barabara
- ボタンの掛け違い botan
- 部分最適 bubun
- 無難 bunan
- 病気療養 byoki
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<B>:
- come apart; fall in/into pieces; be scattered; disperse; inconsistent method; various; diverse; divergent; according to one's own wishes; loose; disjointed collection; discretely; be messing up;
- buttoned up enevenly/incorrectly; put buttons in the wrong buttonholes star from the wrong button; you've buttoned your shirt crookedly; put the button in the wrong hole;
- partial optimization; suboptimization; ⇔ total optimization
- safe; secure; passable; tolerable; acceptable; innocuous, innocuousness; faultlessnes; free from fault;
- recuperation; convalesce, convalescence; be under medial treatment; a rest home; sanatorium; be on sick leave; be abent owing to illness
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- 知恵を絞る chie
- 直感 chokkan
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<C>:
- beat/rack/cudgel one's brains; exercise wisdom; find the best way;
- (know by) intuition; a gut feeling; suspicion;
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- だからこそ dakarakoso
- 同調する docho
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<D>:
- (all the more) for this reason; therefore; so; precisely because (it is); that's why; since it is a recession, we must; especially why I want;
- tuning; tune in/into; sympathize with; follow suit; side with; fall in with; come into line with; synchonize; harmonize;
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- 縁の下の力持ち ennoshita
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<E>:
- unsung hero; spade work behind the scenes; behind-the-scenes leader; back-end supporter; defender;
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- 不安解消 fuan
- 不調 fucho
- 普及 fukyu
- 不振に苦しむ fushin
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<F>:
- relieve concern/anxiety/fear/unrest;
- be in a bad condition; be out of form; be not in good form; be in a slump; rupture of negotiations; upset; bad condition; not to work out; break-off; failing;
- permeate; proliferate; diffuse; spread; popularize; become common; commonplace; propagate; pervasive;
- suffer from economic slump; depression of business; poor business performance; unprofitable business operation; in financial difficulties; on the verge of bankruptcy; slack domestic demand;
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- 頑張る ganbaru
- 現場 genba
- ぎくしゃく gikushaku
- ごまかし gomakashi
- 業務改革 gyomu kaikaku
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<G>:
- do one's best; do what one can; work/try hard; try one's hardest; make an effort to do; break a leg; keep up the good work; keep it up; hang in there; keep going; I'll do my best - Don't try your best. Do it!; keep pushing forward; go for it, don't be afraid, just do it!;
- front-end; scene; field; on site; in reality; dysphoria;
- not smooth; lie about; cook up a bill; be jerky; strained relations; nervous strain; awkward; constrained;
- trickery; trick motion; cheat; cook up a bill; fake it; lie about; deceive; (a) deception; false; fraudulent;
- business reforms; BPR, Business Process Reengineering; business transformation
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- 肌で感じる hadade
- 拍車をかける hakusha
- 反論する hanron
- 閉塞感 heisoku
- 必要最小限 hitsuyo
- 表情がない hyojo
- 評価 hyoka
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<H>:
- get the feel of something with the skin; feel by touching; feel through/on one's skin; feel the impact of; feel deep down to
- put/set spur on; give impetus to; expedite; encourage; drive people spur on; add fresh fuel to
- to object; counter argument; opposing argument; refutation; bring/put up opposition; answer comeback;
- looked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind; feeling of despair;
- necessity minimum; minimum necessary; minimal/marginal resources for; only bare essentials;
- no facial expression; absence/lack of expression; expressionless; impassive; blank looks; wooden stares; woodenly; wear poker-faces; without showing one's emotions/feelings;
- valuation; estimate; (value) assessment; appraisal; good reputation;
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- 活かす ikasu
- 今までの imamadeno
- 痛々しい itaitashi
- 言うまでもなく iumademo
- いわば iwaba
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< I >:
- make use of; utilize; leverage (skills); use experiences; take advantage of; apply; exploit; harness; feeling a sense of limitation; a sense of stagnation;
- until now; up to present; hitherto; unprecedented; so far; thus far; up to this day/point; to date;
- pitiful; pitiable; piteous; painful; pathetic;
- not to mention; needless to say; no need to say so; of course; to say nothing of; as well as; much less; let alone
- so to speak; so to call it; as it were; as it were really so; as we say; it were; in a manner of speaking; in a sence; may be compared/likened;
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- 人材研修 jinbutsu
- 実績数字 jissekisuuji
- 受注率 juchuritsu
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<J>:
- human resources training; fostering/cultivation of ...
- actual value/achievement/performance/accomplishment(s); performance figure(s); numeric data; estimation;
- order ratio; rate of orders received; (close) rate of order; efficiency of ordering;
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- 価値判断 kachihandan
- 開発思想 kaihatsu
- 懐疑的 kaigiteki
- 解雇する kaiko
- 掛詞 kakekotoba
- 活気 kakki
- 確信 kakushin
- 寡黙な kamoku
- 感覚的 kankakuteki
- 軽口 karukuchi
- 形骸化 keigai
- 決意する ketsui
- 機嫌が悪い kigen
- 聞き出す kikidasu
- 危機感 kikikan
- 聞く耳持たない kikumimi
- 気になる kininaru
- 金銭的損害 kinsen
- 気力 kiryoku
- このままでは konomama
- 断り切れず kotowari
- こつこつ kotsukotsu
- 行動 koudou
- 好感 koukan
- 後退 koutai
- 苦労話 kurou
- 客観的に kyakkanteki
- 恐怖心 kyofu
- 休職 kyushoku
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<K>:
- a value judgment; appraisive;
- design concept/ideology; development concept;
- skeptical; miscreant; suspicious; doubt;
- fire; displace; lay off; give the kick; discard; discharge; dismiss;
- pivot word; paronomasia; pun (eg: we must all hang together, or we shall hang separately)
- vigor; spirited, spirit; energy; animated, animation; lively; full of life; vigorous; animate; active
- conviction; a firm belief; confidence; believe firmly; be sure/certain/convinced/confident ...; positive; assurance; convincement; a crime of conscience;
- untalkative, restrained; reticent;
- sensible; sensuous; sensory; intuitive; feeling; sensations; psychic
- crack a joke; banter; a suggestive joke; make jokes; talk idly;
- a mere name; mere shell of; empty shell; dead letter; losing substance; a matter of formality;
- decide; determine; make a fresh resolve; make up one's mind to; clench one's teach; make firm resolve set;
- irritated; ill/bad tempter/mood; ill humour; a bad mood; cranky; crabby; hurt feelings; displease;
- obtain (information) by questioning; find out (the truth9; pump a secret out of; worm out (of); extract a confession from; educe; elicit; evoke a memory;
- sense of (impending) crisis; sense of emergency of; a crisis mentality; a critical feeling;
- won't listen to whatever; have no ears; refuse to hear; turn a deaf ear to; not get the message;
- be/weigh on one's mind; worry one; get worried; feel uneasy about; be anxious about; become curious; feel uneasy; be concerned about;
- pecuniary damage; monetary damage/loss;
- energy, be energetic; spirit; vigor; vitality; pluck; mettle; will-power
- at this rate; like this; as is; as it is; the matter must go on; keep goin on this way; in this situation; (no good) this way; cannot continue ... the way things are going; cannot pass over the matter; this could just (destroy); will be ruined; things can't continue as is;
- get information out of; without being able to refuse; be/feel compelled to
- steadily; laboriously; untiringly;
- action; activity; behavior; reaction; conduct; perform;
- favorable impression; get a good feeling; favorable/positive impression; a good reputation; especially pleased with;
- a retreat; retrogression, retrograde; retrocession, retrocede; regression; go/move/fall back; brought back; recede; go astern; in reverse, reversing; recession of, recede; setback; retraction; declination, decline; rollback;
- troubles; hardship(s); sufferings; labor; toil; pains; have difficulty;
- look (at) objectively; objective view/fashion/evaluation; nonpartisan; even-handed; neutral perspective;
- strike terror into; inspire dread in; a fearterror; a fright; a dread; a panic; be terrified; be terror/panic/horror; scary emotions; have a fear of (snakes);
- leave of absence; suspension from work/office; be suspended from one job/duties; be laid off; took a temporary leave from a job; be between jobs; temporary retirement;
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- 任す makasu
- またに機会に matano
- 免疫療法 meneki
- 目先の mesaki
- 目指す mezasu
- 見返り mikaeri
- 無駄 muda
- 無関心 mukanshin
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<M>:
- be up to you; I rely on you; I leave this/it/that/everything/those details/that decision to you/to your judgement/in your hands/to our discretion; I'll leave it all up to you; I lave the matter to your judgement; it's your pick; I'm counting on you for this; I'll leave you in charge for that; show me what you can do; whatever you want to do;
- I'll check a rain check; another time;
- immunotherapy; treatment of disease by enhancing or suppressing an immune response;
- immediate profit; just in front of; think only of the present profit; in the near-term; in the short run;
- aim; go toward; head for destination; run toward;
- as a quid pro quo for; in return (for); as a return for; in exchange; as;
- useless (labor) , uselessness; (of) no use; pointlessness; futile (endeavours), futility; a futile effort; fruitless (attempt) ; bootless; sleeveless; no good ; unnecessary; (in) vain (efforts) ; to no purpose; wasteful, wastefulness, waist; waisted movement; come to nothing; naught; idle (talk); ineffectively; uneconomical; unproductive of success; producing no result or effect; a clumsy and wasteful process; otiose; unavailing (endeavours) ; worthless; dissipation; profitless; no compensating gain; senselessness; vacuity; mindlessness; inanity; lack of meaning; unnecessary; barren (discussion)
- indifferent to/toward; apathy; unconcern; have no interest; detached; listless; out-of-touch;
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- なだめる nadameru
- 内部都合 naibutsugo
- 仲間はずれ nakama
- 何気なく nanigenaku
- 慣れ nare
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<N>:
- soothe ruffled spirit; calm somebody down/anger; allay; appease; pacify; mitigate; placate; conciliate; mollify one's anger;
- if circumstances permit; convenience, it it si convenient for; if it suits one; at one's convenience; for ceratin reasons; owing to circumstances;
- not belong; be ostracized; be left out; be excluded from;
- unintentionally; calmly; casually; in a casual way; inadvertently; innocently;
- practice; experience; get used to; be used/accustomed to ... ing; beware of overconfidence; have learned not to be surprised by;
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- 応援する ohen
- オフコン office computer
- 思い出 omoide
- 重たい雰囲気 omotai
- お世話になる osewa
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<O>:
- root for; believe in; be behind you; hope everything turns out OK; be looking forward to; on your side; I know you can do it; be cheering you on; be hoping for the best; support; have full support; wishing your the best, with to you; get your back; be with you 100%; be behind you all the way; keep one's fingers crossed; be backing up;
- midrange computer for business;
- memories; recollection(s); remember, recall; good old memory/days; remind me of; be reminded of; memento; reminiscence;
- heavy atmosphere; somber; dour atmosphere dour look; stiffly; cool air; distant
- I appreciate all you have done for me; thank you for you calling/help;
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<Q>: |
- 落語家 rakugoka
- 冷静に reisei
- 稟議書 ringisho
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<R>:
- a comic story teller; a comedic storyteller;
- calm; cool; cool-headed; keep one's coolness; philosophically; nerveless;
- draft plan circulated to obtain permission; approval document; request for managerial decision; decision request; decision requisition system; request for approval;
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- 猜疑心 saigishin
- 三者三様 sansha
- 成果主義 seikashugi
- 責任転嫁 sekinin
- 潜在能力 senzai
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- 社会人 shakaijin
- 釈然としない shakuzen
- 叱責 shisseki
- 指摘 shiteki
- 叱咤激励 shittagekirei
- 商談 shodan
- 消滅 shometsu
- 消耗疲労 shomou hirou
- 将来を左右 shorai
- 収入源 shunyu
- 収束 shuusoku
- スタッフ staff
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<S>:
- suspicious (of everything); jealous (of somebody); suspicious eyes/nature; paranoic; PPD (paranoid personality disorder); distrust; mistrust; misgiving; under a cloud;
- tripartite three-way; each of the three is different for the other two; each of the three solved the problem in his own way; each has his own way of; each of he three is different from the other two; three different walks of life;
- results-oriented approach; belief in results; performance based pay system; pay-for-performance; performance-based pay;
- pass the buck; back-passing; buck-passer; scapegoater; shift/shuffle (the) responsibility
- potential ability; reprimand; rebuke;
- System Engineering Service;
- an adult; a member of society; a working member of society;
- be not satisfied/happy; remain in the dark; suspicious about;
- scold; reproach; chastise; growl; impeach; reprehend; upbraid; criticize/censure severely
- pointing out; indicate; designate; put one's finger on; argue;
- scold/rebuke; berate; encourage; strongly urge; spur somebody to do; give/put/set supers; give a pep talk to; dress down; reproof; give/spur a pep talk to
- (business) negotiation(s); business talk; business discussion; bargain; making a deal;
- extinction, become extinct; disappearance, disappear; vanish; lapse; become null and void; passing (of movement; expiation, be expiated; extinguish (a mortgage); nullify (a right); cease to exist; die out (in course of time); go out of existence;
- exhaustion; wear out; run through; use up all of one's energy; war of attrition;
- influence the future; critical; decisive; vital;
- source of income; income earner; money producer; revenue (stream); incomings; spirituality;
- converge, settle, restore something to its normal; conclude; calm down; come to an end;
- all (the) staff; a staff of 30 people; the teaching/general staff; 30 staff; not sufficiently staffed; a large/small staff; both of the teams have excellent coarch staff.; a staff meeting
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- 体験 taiken
- 足りないもの tarinai
- 手掛ける tegakeru
- 手抜き tenuki
- 統一的な toitsu
- 捉える toraeru
- 囚われた torawareta
- 淘汰 tota
- つい、うっかり tsui
- つじつま合わせ tsujitsuma
- 掴む tsukamu
- 摘み取る tsumitoru
- 強みを発揮する tsuyomi
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<T>:
- undergo (personal/physical/one's own) experience; go through;
- what is missing; still insufficient; be lack of; come/fall short; be not worth (reading); be below (contempt); be beneath (notice)
- deal with; work with; handle; manage; undertake; have experience in/with; involved in;
- corner-cutting; cut corners; negligence; shoddy; skimp/scamp one's work
- uniform; unified; consistent; organic; coherence; concert; integration;
- grasp (the meaning) ; seize; capture; arret; perceive; apprehend; treat; understand;
- prejudiced opinion; conventional ideas; be bound by the common sense; being restricted by; prepossessed; be captured by; be stuck in the past; obsessed with something
- selection; curtailment, curtail; weed out; screen; sift; reduce;
- carelessly; by mistake; by accident/chance; unintentionally; slip of the tongue; let slip; slip out;
- to make one's sttement consistent; to make the story sound plausible/consitnt;
- seize; catch; grasp; grip; clutch; grab; hold; take/get hold of; lay hands on; understand; find; make ... out; apprehend;
- pluck the bud; pull the buds off; nip something in the bud; pinch off a bud; nip such illegal practices in the bud;
- advantage; capital; edge; forte; meat; pull; demonstrate/display strength; stong point; to make one's strengths effective and ones weaknesses irrelevant.
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- 鵜呑み unomi
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<U>:
- swallow something whole without chewing; believe the story without even questioning it; swallow the story, hook, line and sinker.
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- 分かりますか wakaruka
- 笑い warai
- わずかな差 wazukana
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<W>:
- Does it make sense?; × Do you understand?
- a laugh, be laughed at, make oneself a laughingstock; incur derision; laughter, a laughing voice; amile; a chucke, cannot stop chuckling; a giggle; a funny story
- by narrow/small/slim margin; lose by a hair; close second; by a whisker/nose; a modest difference;
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- やるべきことやる yarubeki
- 読み取る yomitoru
- 予測 yosoku
- 予想に反して yosou
- 油断 yudan
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<Y>:
- do the right thing; do what is supposed to be done; do what should be done;
- to read a person's thought; to guess what a person is thinking; read into;
- estimate, estimation, preestimate; make an accurate estimate/forecast; projection, project; prospect; presupposition; forecast; guess ahead; guess/predict what the result will be; foreseeability; expectancy; anticipation anticipate;
- contrary to expectations; against/beyond one's expectations; unexpectedly; unforeseen; beyond the scope of the assumption;
- neglect, negligence, be negligent; carelessness, be careless; inattention, be inattentive; unpreparedness; relax one's guard; be off one's guard toward; overconfidence;
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- 雑談 zatsudan
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<Z>:
- (have a) chat; idle/small talk; light conversation; bibble-babble
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