身の上

Meanings

1. Expression, Noun

   one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances
2. one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

• 彼かれの身みの上うえに何なにがあったか誰だれも知しらない。

  No one knows what has happened to him.

• 彼女かのじょは深呼吸しんこきゅうしてから、身みの上うえを語かたり始はじめた。

  She took a deep breath and then started to talk about herself.

• 長吉は人間にんげんというものは年としを取とると、若わかい時分じぶんに経験けいけんした若わかいものしか知しらない煩悶はんもん不安ふあんをばけろりと忘わすれてしまって、次つぎの時代じだいに生うまれて来くる若わかいものの身みの上うえを極きわめて無頓着むとんちゃくに訓戒くんかい批評ひひょうする事ことのできる便利べんりな性質せいしつを持もっているものだ、年ねんを取とったものと若わかいものの間あいだには到底とうてい一致いっちされない懸隔けんかくのある事ことをつくづく感かんじた。

  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.