\n* \u8a71\u306b\u4e57\u308b
\n bite
\n* \u541b\u304c\u3053\u308c\u306b\u52a0\u308f\u308b\u306a\u3089\uff08\u3053\u306e\u8a71\u306b\u4e57\u308b\u306a\u3089\uff09\u3001\u3059\u3050\u306b\u8a71\u3092\u3057\u306a\u3051\u308c\u3070\u306a\u3089\u306a\u3044\u3002
\n If you’re coming in on this, we’ve gotta start talking right now.
\n* \uff08\uff5e\u3059\u308b\uff09\u8a71\u306b\u4e57\u308b
\n jump at the chance [opportunity] (to)
\n* \uff5e\u306e\u8a71\u306b\u4e57\u308b
\n go along with\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Obviously, \u300c\u8a71\u306b\u4e57\u308b\u300d doesn’t mean “bite” in the literal sense of the word, so you should always read example sentences to see the full context.<\/p>\n
Translating English words<\/h2>\n
When you start practicing your Japanese, you will often think of a word or concept that you don’t know how to express in Japanese. Unfortunately, it’s a lot trickier to find the correct Japanese for an English phrase than it is to learn the definition of a given Japanese word.<\/p>\n
Before you try anything, do NOT try to translate very abstract or grammatical words such as “like”, “as”, and “for”. You should probably be asking a Japanese speaker how to express complete sentences and thoughts, not abstract words that likely won’t translate very well or not at all. However, if you need to find a translation for concrete, simple words like “car” or “biology”, you could try an English-Japanese dictionary. <\/p>\n
First of all, do NOT use any dictionaries that only have Japanese-English \uff08\u548c\u82f1\uff09 dictionaries such as the WWWJDIC or jisho.org to look up English words. These dictionaries merely give you the illusion of an English-Japanese dictionary by searching within the English definitions of Japanese words often with disastrous results. It simply does NOT work.<\/p>\n
Instead, use sites that have English-Japanese \uff08\u82f1\u548c\uff09 dictionaries like alc (http:\/\/www.alc.co.jp) or Yahoo! (http:\/\/dic.yahoo.co.jp\/). If you search for “eat”, both dictionaries return \u300c\u98df\u3079\u308b\u300d as you would expect. Japanese-English dictionaries return entries that I won’t even bother to reproduce here.<\/p>\n
Personally, I prefer alc, as you can search whole phrases and idioms such as “eat my hat” and often get good results.<\/p>\n
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Different Kanji for the same word<\/h2>\n
You will often come upon a Kanji that has the exact same reading and an almost identical meaning to other similar words. Examples of this include the various ways you can write the verb “to see” which is \u300c\u307f\u308b\u300d. This word can be written in 5 different Kanji each with a slight difference in meaning.<\/p>\n
\n- \u898b\u308b \u3010\u307f\u30fb\u308b\u3011 – to see<\/li>\n
- \u770b\u308b \u3010\u307f\u30fb\u308b\u3011 – to see (as in to nurse)<\/li>\n
- \u89b3\u308b \u3010\u307f\u30fb\u308b\u3011 – to watch<\/li>\n
- \u8996\u308b \u3010\u307f\u30fb\u308b\u3011 – to see (to investigate)<\/li>\n
- \u8a3a\u308b \u3010\u307f\u30fb\u308b\u3011 – to see (to diagnose)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
For words that can be written with multiple Kanji, you can use the various dictionaries and example sentences to learn when to use which. Your Japanese input method editor can also be an excellent tool as the ones for OS X and Windows explain the differences between the different version when you select the Kanji.<\/p>\n
![\"os](\"\/images\/osx_ime.png\")
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