01 June 2010

敗 - failure - fracaso

Word:
  • 失敗 shipPAI
  • English: failure
  • Spanish: fracaso
Sentence:
  • 万一僕が失敗すれば、両親がどんなにがっかりすることだろう
  • man'ichi boku ga shippai-sureba, ryōshin ga donna ni gakkari-suru koto darō
  • How disappointed my parents would be, if I should fail!
  • Si por casualidad fracasara, que decepcionados estarian mis padres!
Mnemonics:
  • The left part is a shell 貝 and the right part looks like a folding chair. The shells and the folding chair remind me of the beach. So imagine that you are a child collecting shells for a competition and you fail. The winner stands up on the folding chair!!

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