Meaning
身の上 (みのうえ, minoue) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “one's personal history, one's circumstances”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
身の上相談に乗るのもカウンセラーの仕事だ
It is also a counselor's job to give personal advice.
陰陽師身の上知らず。
Physician, heal thyself.
今は安楽な身の上だ.
He is now comfortably off.
私の身の上話をしましょう。
I'll tell you my story.
老婆は頼りない身の上だった.
The old woman had no one to turn to (for help).
彼の身の上に何があったか誰も知らない。
No one knows what has happened to him.
彼女は深呼吸してから、身の上を語り始めた。
She took a deep breath and then started to talk about herself.
その不幸な女性は涙にかきくれて身の上話をした。
The unhappy woman, drowned in tears, told her story.
彼女は会う人すべてに自分の不幸な身の上話をする。
She tells her tale of misery to everyone she meets.
長吉は人間というものは年を取ると、若い時分に経験した若いものしか知らない煩悶不安をばけろりと忘れてしまって、次の時代に生れて来る若いものの身の上を極めて無頓着に訓戒批評する事のできる便利な性質を持っているものだ、年を取ったものと若いものの間には到底一致されない懸隔のある事をつくづく感じた。
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.