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凡人 (ぼんじん, bonjin) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “ordinary person”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼の 作品を 凡人が 理解するのは 難しい
It is difficult for the layperson to understand his work.
私は凡人です。
I am a average Joe.
凡人が 語るのは 食べ物だ。
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
あに凡人の堪える所ならんや。
No normal person can compare.
私のことを 凡人だと 思うのはやめて！
Stop thinking of me as just an average person.
だが一介の凡人の目には我が姿は見えぬ。
"but to the eyes of common mortals I am invisible.
篤胤の執筆する様子は、凡人のものではなかった。
How Atsutane write was not something of an ordinary person.
賢者は 思想を 語り 知識 人は 事実を 語る。
多くの凡人達の思想とは相容れない思想があり、詭弁家の理論とは異なる理論があるのだ。
- other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude - other speculations than the speculations of the sophist.
徳一は『中辺義鏡』において法華教説や最澄に対して「凡人臆説」「顛狂人」「愚夫」などと悪し様に罵倒している。
Tokuitsu reviled the Hokekyo theory and Saicho in "Chuhen gikyo," calling him 'Bonjin okusetsu' (conjecture of ordinary person), 'tengonin' (madness), 'gufu' (fool) and so on.
秀甫は中江兆民『一年有半』で「近代非凡人三十一人」に数えられるほどの名声を得ていたが、本因坊道策・秀和・秀策・秀栄といった史上の大名人たちに比べると知名度は低く、時の第一人者でありながらその生涯は決して恵まれたものではなかった。
Although Shuho had such an excellent reputation that Chomin NAKAE regarded him as 'one of the 31 distinguished people in the modern time' in his book "Ichinen Yuhan" (One and a Half Year Left), he was less known to the public, compared with the grand masters such as Honinbo Dosaku, Shuwa, Shusaku and Shuei, and his life was not totally fortunate in spite of that he was the leading player of the time.
家康は、独断で物事を決するよりは、専ら評定を開いては家臣だけで議論をさせ、家臣たちが結論を出したところで決断をするところから、あくまでその議論のまとめ役や政策実行の代表者に過ぎない（部下の使い方がうまいという見方もある）、たまたま長生きしたために天下を取ることができた凡人に過ぎないとする意見もある。
There exists the following opinion as well: Rather than determining things independently, Ieyasu held meetings and made his retainers discuss them, and made decisions after they reached conclusions, and therefore, he was only an organizer of discussions or the representative of policy-executing staffs (there is also a viewpoint that he was good at using subordinates), and he could unify the nation because he happened to live a long life and actually was only an ordinary person.