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Monday, October 29, 2007

自業自得


じ ごう じ とく
ji gou ji toku

Definition:
自分でした事に対する悪いむくいを自分で受けること。

Cultural Translations:
1. You made your bed, now lie in it.
2. You have no one to blame but yourself.
3. It's your own damn fault.

I learned this one about 8 months ago when I was involved in a drunken bike accident. I tried to jump off of a wheelchair ramp and ended up with a concussion, twelve stitches, and a three day hospital stay. 自業自得。

例文:僕のもと彼女はいつも「聞いて欲しい」と言ったけど、僕はあまり聞いてあげなかった。だから、別れたことは自業自得です。
My ex-girlfriend always wanted me to listen to her, but I never really did. So the break-up is my own damn fault.

7 comments:

BilabialBoxing said...

たとえ勉強は僕を殺しても、日本語能力試験の二級を合格します。自業自得だから。

"Even if the studying kills me, I'm going to pass the second level of the Japanese Proficiency Test. I signed up for the damn thing after all."

Okay, that probably isn't quite right. And also I'm finding it hard to put this into a sentence in a smooth fashion. It's really kind of a one-liner, eh? You need to have a Japanese moderator here or something.

Anonymous said...

あなたは いつもb私のことを CAREしないと いつか 私はどこかに 消えてしまうかもしれません。

そのときは あなたは 自業自得と 感じるでしょう。

YURIX

Anonymous said...

if you dont care about me,i'll probably i leave you.

if that happens it will be your own falt.


YURIX

Defendership said...

毎日俺は学校で寝たいだ。でも昨夜1時2時ぐらい寝るから自業自得だろう。

Nirav said...

4. What you reap is what you sow.
5. She was asking for it.

Ok, maybe not 5.

Colin: I don't really think that sentence works.

毎日ゲームばかりしてるから試験に落ちるんだよ!まったく、自業自得だよ!

But then again, I'm just Nirav with three years of studying. (I'm really glad I could finally get that out on the internet)

Osu-ed!

Claytonian said...

Is Osu-ed like pwned?

g..k..s..t..r said...

不幸になったのは自業自得だ。
You brought on your own misfortunes.

それは自業自得はよ。
You asked for it./It's no more than you deserved.