Word · 単語
素
Reading す
one's nature
- 1 one's nature, one's feelings, oneself
- 2 plain, unadorned, undecorated, unadulterated, au naturel
- 3 mere, poor — before a noun
- 4 exceedingly — before an adjective
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例文 · examples
どうやら、さっきのは演技ではなく、素だったらしい。
It seems like that she wasn't acting back then; they were her real feelings.
生粋のお嬢様だからな。残念ながら悪戯とかじゃなくてあれで素だ。
She's pure bred blue-blood you see. Unfortunately that's no sort of put-on but her natural self.
そ、そうじゃなくて、・・・ 素の自分、本当の私を必要としてくれる人がいるなんて、考えたこともありませんでしたから。
N-no it's not that ... it's that there could be someone who would need me for what I am, for my true self, I hadn't even thought of that possibility.