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練
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Proverb
practice, practice, practice; (only) practice makes perfect
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military exercise; drill
Examples
軍事訓練とは兵士たちが受ける訓練である。
Military training is training given to soldiers.
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exercises; practice problem
Examples
英作文の練習問題をしなさい。
Do a composition exercise, please.
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Food, cooking
kneaded sweet; confection made by combining powdered or granular ingredients (e.g. rice flour, sesame seeds, sugar) with a liquid or sweet bean paste and kneading the resulting mixture
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Idiomatic expression; Jocular, humorous term
useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat
Examples
コンピューターのマニュアルを読むだけでは所詮畳の上の水練だ。
Just reading a computer manual is like practicing swimming on dry land.
