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Dai Fuseikai
大不正解 (2018) is back number at their most caustic. The title track is a couple who refuse to complete each other - 完全無欠, 原型, 補う, 噛み付く - Kyoukasyo daydreams over textbook margins (落書き, 壮絶, 大袈裟, 積み立てる), and Loneliness stages an interview with God and borrows arithmetic to do it: 多数決, 四捨五入, 端数, 切り捨てる.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 完全無欠 | flawless, perfect in every way (かんぜんむけつ) | 完全無欠な人などいない。Nobody is flawless. |
| 原型 | the original form, a prototype (げんけい) | 建物は原型をとどめていない。The building retains nothing of its original form. |
| 無様 | unsightly, pathetic (ぶざま) | 無様な姿を見せたくない。I don't want to look pathetic. |
| 噛み付く | to bite at, to snap at someone (かみつく) | 些細な指摘に噛み付いてきた。He snapped at a minor remark. |
| 剥ぎ取る | to strip off, to tear away (はぎとる) | 壁紙を剥ぎ取って塗り直した。We stripped the wallpaper and repainted. |
| 補う | to make up for, to supplement (おぎなう) | 不足分は貯金で補った。I made up the shortfall from savings. |
| 縁 | a connection, a tie of fate (えん) | 不思議な縁で再会した。We met again through a curious twist of fate. |
| 駄々をこねる | to whine, to throw a tantrum (だだをこねる) | 子供が店先で駄々をこねている。The child is throwing a tantrum outside the shop. |
| 親しみ | familiarity, a sense of warmth (したしみ) | 方言に親しみを覚える。I feel a warmth towards the dialect. |
| 落書き | a scribble, graffiti (らくがき) | 机に落書きが残っている。There's scribbling left on the desk. |
| 壮絶 | fierce, dramatic (そうぜつ) | 壮絶な戦いの末に勝利した。They won after a fierce struggle. |
| 暴く | to expose, to uncover (あばく) | 記者が不正を暴いた。A reporter exposed the wrongdoing. |
| 積み立てる | to save up bit by bit (つみたてる) | 毎月少しずつ積み立てている。I'm putting a little aside each month. |
| 大袈裟 | exaggerated, over the top (おおげさ) | 大袈裟に驚いてみせた。He made a show of being surprised. |
| 早速 | right away, without delay (さっそく) | 早速取りかかることにした。I decided to get started right away. |
| 心掛ける | to bear in mind, to make a point of (こころがける) | 早寝早起きを心掛けている。I make a point of early nights and early mornings. |
| 待望 | long-awaited (たいぼう) | 待望の続編が公開された。The long-awaited sequel was released. |
| 最高傑作 | one's greatest work (さいこうけっさく) | この一枚が彼の最高傑作だ。This one album is his greatest work. |
| 浮き彫り | relief carving; being thrown into sharp relief (うきぼり) | 調査で問題点が浮き彫りになった。The survey threw the problems into relief. |
| 多数決 | a majority vote (たすうけつ) | 最後は多数決で決めた。We settled it by a majority vote in the end. |
| 四捨五入 | rounding to the nearest whole number (ししゃごにゅう) | 小数点以下は四捨五入する。Round the decimals to the nearest whole number. |
| 切り捨てる | to discard, to round down, to cast aside (きりすてる) | 少数意見を切り捨ててはいけない。Minority views must not be cast aside. |
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