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R. Bernfeld
Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:32 pm:   

Does anyone know the translation for this word, "shiorashii"? There were no kanji where I saw it, it was written in hiragana, and I have been able to find it in no dictionary. Thank you ^_^
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Ms. Anon
Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 09:44 pm:   

I pasted the following from Microsoft Bookshelf Basic.

しおらしい
〈おとなしい〉 gentle; modest; 《形式》 meek; 〈かわいらしい〉 sweet; 《形式》 tender; 〈哀れげな〉 pathetic
文例
ご恩返しをしますって, お前もしおらしいことを言うじゃないか. 〈皮肉をこめて〉 You’ll make me weep [You make my heart bleed], with your talk of repaying my kindness some day!
あのお転婆娘のジェーンが好きな男の前ではあんなにしおらしく振舞うから面白い. One can’t help smiling when a tomboy like Jane behaves so meekly in front of her boyfriend.

New College Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th edition (C) Kenkyusha Ltd. 1933,1995,1998

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