裏 – JLPT N4 Vocabulary

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ura

Meaning

    reverse side, rear, back
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日本語英語
いわゆる裏方仕事もたくさんあります。There’s also a great deal of so called behind-the-scenes work.
「見た目は悪くないがちょっと軽薄そう」な外見とは裏腹に、彼女はいないし、女性に手が早いワケでもない。In contrast to his “not bad looks but seems a bit of a dandy” appearance, he didn’t have a girlfriend and he wasn’t particularly fast with the ladies.
ジブの裏帆とラダーを使って、バックしながら船首を進みたい方向に向けました。Using the rudder and the jib with the wind behind it we backed up, turning the bow to the direction we wanted to go.
「ここまでは表向きの話なんです。キリカさんも知っていることですね」「ってことは、裏向きもあるんですか?」“Up to this point has been the official story, which Kirika also knows.” “By which you mean there is also an unofficial?”
大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work – collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn’t have been proved more wrong.

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