Word · 単語
自称
Reading じしょう
self-proclaimed
- 1 self-proclaimed, self-professed, self-styled, would-be
- 2 professing oneself to be, calling oneself, describing oneself as
- 3 first person
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例文 · examples
彼は財政の専門家であると自称した。
He claimed to be an expert in finance.
sense 1 · self-proclaimed
それからまもなく幾人かの測量士と自称する変な服装をした人たちが集落にやってきて、祖母の小屋の前を測っていきました。
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
sense 2 · professing oneself to be
本物のノイローゼの奴がノイローゼだなんて自称するのかね？
Do you think real neurotics really go and call themselves such?