1804-2003 Flashcards
1805殿Mr.
Associative Compound. Hand holding a weapon 殳 and striking a buttĐIỆN, ĐIẾN
1806井well
I nearly died by falling in a #well#. Actually, on two separate occasions. I’m glad to see they’ve added these fence posts. Now the #well# will be much safer.
1807囲surround
The village #surround#ed the well with a wall so kids wouldn’t fall in.
1808耕till
If you just grow your christmas tree in a well, there will be no need to till the soil.
1809亜Asia
In Asian countries, people use II chopsticks to get things into their mouths. Just imagine someone shoving a piece of sushi into their mouths with chopsticks.
1810悪bad
Because Asian people started to eat Western food, their hearts became bad and they started having heart attacks.
1811円circle
The shape of a Yen coin.
1812角angle
A museum display of two walking sticks bound together under a glass canopy, showing the first device used to measure an angle.
1813触contact
For insects to get in contact with each other, they need to place their antennae at just the right angle.
1814解unravel
Unravel the mystery by determining at what ANGLE the SWORD went into the COW.
1815再again
The king has eaten too much and has to get a new belt #again#. See his fat rolls hanging over?
1816講lecture
I have a funnel attached to my laptop that takes my prof’s lecture and puts the words into a text file. The bigger the funnel, the more accurate the conversion, so picture a bunch of laptops with large, unwieldy funnels attached to the USB port.
1817購subscription
Subscription is like a money funnel, because the receiving end is small (just one company) and the other end is wide (the whole country).
1818構posture
Trees with good posture look like funnels. For example, http://static.flickr.com/53/118084202_8896e54a14_m.jpg
1819溝gutter
A gutter funnels water.
1820論argument
Right part: academic conference (a meeting, some of the attendees making notes in scrapbooks during presentation). #Argument# at academic conferences is naturally carried out using words.
1821倫ethics
Mr. T talks about ethics at the academic conference. “I pity the fool who gets caught plagarizing someone else’s stuff!”
1822輪wheel
During a talk at the academic conference, speaker shows an introductory slide depicting the structure of car, and then moves on to the more narrow topic of #wheels#.
1823偏partial
Mr. T is very partial to hentai comic books. I know because he dropped a pile of them when I accidentally bumped into him at the door to kinokuniya!
1824遍everywhere
Go down the road in Japan and you will find comics EVERYWHERE, newpaper stands, 7-11, Tsutaya, even the supermarket. Comics are everywhere here along the road.
1825編compilation
I took the compilation of covers of all my Spider-Man comics that I had saved in a scrapbook and glued them on my door.
1826冊tome
Pictograph. I think of that Harry Potter spell book that had to be bound shut coz it wanted to eat you.
1827典code
This kanji means a code of law, not a secret language or symbolic language (such as programming code) … Story: The code of law is a tool used to bend citizens to society’s will. You can use the image of a totalitarian state, but be careful not to confuse it with the pinnacle primitive {阪}
1828氏family name
Looks a bit like Ft => #F#amily #t#itle => Family name