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Chandelier
シャンデリア (2015). The album's centrepiece has one of the longest titles in J-pop - 'I like you but you don't seem to like me' - and it argues its case in comic set phrases: 過言, ぐうの音も出ない, 気が済む, やけくそ. Sister and Christmas Song fill in the plain everyday register around it: 渦, 費やす, 人混み, 聖夜.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 無神経 | insensitive, tactless (むしんけい) | 無神経な一言で傷つけてしまった。I hurt them with one tactless remark. |
| 帆 | a sail (ほ) | 船が白い帆を上げた。The ship raised its white sail. |
| 渦 | a whirlpool, an eddy (うず) | 川の流れに渦ができている。An eddy has formed in the river's flow. |
| 蹴飛ばす | to kick away, to brush aside (けとばす) | 提案をあっさり蹴飛ばされた。My proposal was brushed aside out of hand. |
| 費やす | to spend, to expend (ついやす) | 資料集めに三か月を費やした。I spent three months gathering materials. |
| 逆さ | upside down, reversed (さかさ) | 写真が逆さに貼ってある。The photo is stuck on upside down. |
| 散らかる | to be strewn about, to be untidy (ちらかる) | 机の上が散らかっている。The desk is cluttered. |
| 好む | to like, to prefer (このむ) | 彼は静かな場所を好む。He prefers quiet places. |
| 重ねる | to stack, to overlay, to repeat (かさねる) | 皿を重ねて棚にしまった。I stacked the plates and put them away. |
| 過言 | an overstatement (かごん) | 世界一と言っても過言ではない。It's no exaggeration to call it the best in the world. |
| 捧げる | to devote, to offer up (ささげる) | 彼は生涯を研究に捧げた。He devoted his life to research. |
| 納得 | being convinced, acceptance (なっとく) | 説明を聞いて納得した。I was satisfied once I heard the explanation. |
| ぐうの音も出ない | to have no comeback at all (ぐうのねもでない) | 正論にぐうの音も出なかった。I had no comeback to such a sound argument. |
| 深まる | to deepen (ふかまる) | 秋が深まってきた。Autumn has deepened. |
| 名探偵 | a great detective (めいたんてい) | 子供の頃は名探偵に憧れた。As a child I looked up to great detectives. |
| 気が済む | to feel satisfied, to get it out of one's system (きがすむ) | 気が済むまでやってみたらいい。Do it until you've got it out of your system. |
| 行き場 | a place to go, an outlet (いきば) | 行き場のない怒りを抱えている。He carries anger with nowhere to go. |
| 聖夜 | Christmas Eve, the holy night (せいや) | 聖夜に家族で食卓を囲んだ。We gathered round the table on Christmas Eve. |
| わざとらしい | contrived, obviously put on | わざとらしい笑い方が気になる。That obviously forced laugh bothers me. |
| 人混み | a crowd of people (ひとごみ) | 人混みが苦手で早めに帰った。I'm bad with crowds so I left early. |
| 柄 | one's style, the sort of person one is (がら) | そういうのは私の柄じゃない。That sort of thing isn't my style. |
| 生やす | to grow (a beard, plants) (はやす) | 彼は最近ひげを生やしている。He's been growing a beard lately. |
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