Word Meaning 身の上
身の上 is read as みのうえ (mi no ue) and means one's lot.
Meaning
English
- one's lot
- one's destiny
- one's future
- one's station in life
- one's personal history
- one's circumstances
Reading
Kana
みのうえ
Romaji
mi no ue
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
Max. 12身上がり
みあがり
taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)
Example Sentences
5陰陽師身の上知らず。
The Ying Yang diviner may not predict his own fate.
彼女は深呼吸してから、身の上を語り始めた。
She took a deep breath and then started to talk about herself.
その不幸な女性は涙にかきくれて身の上話をした。
The unhappy woman, drowned in tears, told her story.
彼女は会う人すべてに自分の不幸な身の上話をする。
She tells her tale of misery to everyone she meets.
長吉は人間というものは年を取ると、若い時分に経験した若いものしか知らない煩悶不安をばけろりと忘れてしまって、次の時代に生れて来る若いものの身の上を極めて無頓着に訓戒批評する事のできる便利な性質を持っているものだ、年を取ったものと若いものの間には到底一致されない懸隔のある事をつくづく感じた。
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.