King Gnu · Japanese · 33 words
THE GREATEST UNKNOWN, Part 2
The rest of THE GREATEST UNKNOWN. STARDOM is the band's sports anthem and its vocabulary of grind is exact - 誤魔化す, 屈辱, 道程, 草臥れる, 嗤う - Ame Sansan works in weather (燦々, 夕立ち, 手遅れ), and Sanmon Shosetsu compares a life to a cheap novel: 老ける, 皺, 三文, 投げ売る.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 牽き寄せる | to draw towards oneself (ひきよせる) | 椅子を牽き寄せて座った。I drew up a chair and sat down. |
| 人波 | a crowd, a surge of people (ひとなみ) | 駅前の人波に流された。I was swept along by the crowd outside the station. |
| 硝子窓 | a glass window (がらすまど) | 硝子窓が朝日で光る。The glass window glints in the morning sun. |
| 有り触れる | to be commonplace (ありふれる) | 有り触れた言葉しか出てこない。Only commonplace words come out. |
| 縋る | to cling to, to depend on (すがる) | 最後の望みに縋っている。He's clinging to a last hope. |
| 軋む | to creak, to grate (きしむ) | 古い床が軋む音がする。The old floor creaks. |
| 泡 | a bubble, foam (あわ) | 石鹸の泡が排水口へ流れた。The soap foam ran down the drain. |
| 清らか | pure, clear (きよらか) | 山の清らかな水を汲んだ。I drew clear mountain water. |
| 弾ける | to burst, to pop (はじける) | 笑い声が弾けるように広がった。Laughter burst out and spread. |
| 跳ねる | to leap, to bounce (はねる) | 魚が水面で跳ねた。A fish leapt at the surface. |
| 歯がゆい | frustrating, maddening (はがゆい) | 見ているだけなのが歯がゆい。Only being able to watch is frustrating. |
| 湯船 | a bathtub (ゆぶね) | 湯船に浸かって疲れをとる。I soak in the bath to ease the tiredness. |
| 気が乗らない | to not feel up to it (きがのらない) | 今日はどうも気が乗らない。I somehow don't feel up to it today. |
| 誤魔化す | to fudge, to cover up (ごまかす) | 笑って誤魔化すのはやめよう。Let's stop laughing it off. |
| 屈辱 | humiliation (くつじょく) | 屈辱をバネにして這い上がった。He used the humiliation as a springboard. |
| 道程 | the road travelled, the distance covered (どうてい) | ここまでの道程は長かった。The road here has been long. |
| 脈々 | continuously, in an unbroken line (みゃくみゃく) | 伝統が脈々と受け継がれている。The tradition is handed down unbroken. |
| 草臥れる | to be worn out (くたびれる) | 一日歩いて草臥れた。I walked all day and I'm worn out. |
| 嗤う | to sneer at, to laugh scornfully (わらう) | 人の夢を嗤うものではない。One shouldn't sneer at other people's dreams. |
| 手答え | a response, a sense that it landed (てごたえ) | 今回は手答えを感じた。This time I felt it land. |
| 燦々 | brilliantly, radiantly (さんさん) | 陽光が燦々と降り注ぐ。Sunlight pours down brilliantly. |
| 生き惑う | to be lost as to how to live (いきまどう) | 生き惑う時期は誰にでもある。Everyone has a time of not knowing how to live. |
| 夕立ち | a sudden evening shower (ゆうだち) | 夕立ちで一気に涼しくなった。The evening shower cooled things right down. |
| 手遅れ | too late (ておくれ) | 気づいた時には手遅れだった。By the time I noticed it was too late. |
| 気怠い | languid, listless (けだるい) | 気怠い午後を過ごした。I spent a listless afternoon. |
| 家鴨 | a domestic duck (あひる) | 池に家鴨が浮かんでいる。Ducks are floating on the pond. |
| 道草 | dawdling on the way, a detour (みちくさ) | 帰りに道草を食ってしまった。I dawdled on the way home. |
| 焔 | a flame (ほむら) | 胸の焔が消えずにいる。The flame in my chest hasn't gone out. |
| 形振り構わず | regardless of appearances (なりふりかまわず) | 形振り構わず走り出した。He ran off without a thought for how he looked. |
| 老ける | to age, to look older (ふける) | しばらく見ない間に老けたね。You've aged in the time since I saw you. |
| 皺 | a wrinkle, a crease (しわ) | シャツの皺を伸ばした。I smoothed out the creases in the shirt. |
| 三文 | worth next to nothing, cheap (さんもん) | 三文の値打ちもないと言われた。It was said to be worth next to nothing. |
| 投げ売る | to sell off cheaply, to dump (なげうる) | 在庫を投げ売りしている。They're dumping the stock cheaply. |
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