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[美化] ◇→美化する

美化
beautification
glorification
鼻下
under the nose

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びか【美化】

◇ → 美化する

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I

びか【美化】

beautification; glorification; glamorization; 〔理想化〕 idealization.

～する beautify 《a city》; make 《the town》 (more) beautiful; (造園術を施して) landscape; 〔美しく見せる〕 glorify; glamorize; romanticize; show 《the war》 in an attractive light; make 《oneself》 look good; 〔理想化する〕 idealize.

●戦争を美化する映画 a film [movie] which glorifies [glamorizes, romanticizes] war

・細身の女性を美化する風潮 the tendency to glamorize [habit of glamorizing] thin women.

●校内[構内]の美化に努める try to keep one's school [the premises] clean [beautiful, tidy].

美化運動

●校内美化運動 a school clean-up campaign

・都市美化運動 a campaign for a cleaner and more beautiful city [to make a city cleaner and more beautiful]

・国土美化運動 a campaign to make the country cleaner and more beautiful; a national [nation-wide] beautification campaign.

美化語 ＝びしょう¹.

II

びか【美果】

an excellent result; a highly satisfactory outcome.

●美果を結ぶ bear good fruit.

III

びか【微瑕】

a slight flaw.

●白璧の微瑕 ⇒はくへき².

IV

びか【鼻下】

●鼻下に under the nose

・鼻下に髭(_ひげ)を蓄える have [grow] a mustache.

V

びか【鼻窩】

【解】 a nasal fossa 《pl. fossae》.