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Magic, Part 2
MAGIC's second half. Exhibition Death Match is an argument with everyone who ever measured you and borrows their language to do it - 物差し, 測る, 効率, 協調性, 人望, 筋道 - while Ame to Boku no Hanashi ends a relationship in the plainest possible words and Happy Birthday spends a birthday alone: 手違い, 着信, 縮まる, 片想い.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 交差点 | an intersection, a crossroads (こうさてん) | 交差点を渡ってすぐ右です。It's right after you cross the intersection. |
| 呆れる | to be dumbfounded, to be exasperated (あきれる) | その言い分には呆れてしまった。I was exasperated by that argument. |
| 阿呆 | a fool, an idiot (あほう) | 阿呆なことを言ってしまった。I said something foolish. |
| ありきたり | commonplace, run-of-the-mill | ありきたりな結末で残念だった。The commonplace ending was disappointing. |
| 例外 | an exception (れいがい) | 例外は認められません。No exceptions will be made. |
| 戯言 | nonsense, drivel (たわごと) | 酔っ払いの戯言に付き合った。I humoured a drunk's nonsense. |
| 物差し | a ruler; a yardstick for judging (ものさし) | 自分の物差しで人を測るな。Don't judge people by your own yardstick. |
| 丸め込む | to talk someone round (まるめこむ) | うまく丸め込まれてしまった。I was neatly talked round. |
| 衰える | to decline, to weaken (おとろえる) | 体力が年々衰えていく。My stamina declines year by year. |
| 効率 | efficiency (こうりつ) | 作業の効率を上げたい。I want to improve the efficiency of the work. |
| 頑な | stubborn, obstinate (かたくな) | 頑なに首を縦に振らなかった。He stubbornly refused to agree. |
| 筋道 | a line of reasoning, logic (すじみち) | 筋道を立てて説明してほしい。Please explain it in a logical order. |
| 振りかざす | to brandish, to wield (ふりかざす) | 権威を振りかざすのはよくない。Wielding authority like that isn't good. |
| 合言葉 | a password, a watchword (あいことば) | 「安全第一」が現場の合言葉だ。'Safety first' is the watchword on site. |
| 負け越す | to end up with more losses than wins (まけこす) | 今季は五つ負け越した。We finished five games under this season. |
| 逆様 | upside down, reversed (さかさま) | 絵が逆様に掛かっている。The picture is hung upside down. |
| 瞑る | to close one's eyes (つぶる) | 目を瞑って深呼吸した。I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. |
| 手違い | a mix-up, a slip-up (てちがい) | 手違いで予約が消えていた。A mix-up had cancelled the booking. |
| 着信 | an incoming call or message (ちゃくしん) | 着信が三件も残っていた。There were three missed calls. |
| 縮まる | to narrow, to shrink (ちぢまる) | 二人の差が少しずつ縮まった。The gap between the two narrowed bit by bit. |
| 綱引き | a tug of war (つなひき) | 運動会の綱引きで優勝した。We won the tug of war at sports day. |
| 片想い | unrequited love (かたおもい) | 長い片想いにけりをつけた。I put an end to a long unrequited love. |
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