Mrs. GREEN APPLE · Japanese · 18 words
Samama Festival!
サママ・フェスティバル！ (2016) is high summer set to a brass section. The title track is all heat and holidays - 灼熱, 色褪せる, 日に焼ける - Umbrella turns rain into the vocabulary of standing beside someone (佇む, 寄り添う, 茜色), and No ni Saku Uta closes it out gently: 一生懸命, 精一杯, 吐息.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 灼熱 | scorching heat (しゃくねつ) | 灼熱の砂漠を横断した。They crossed the scorching desert. |
| 色褪せる | to fade, to lose colour (いろあせる) | 思い出は色褪せないものだ。Memories are things that don't fade. |
| 見渡す | to look out over, to survey (みわたす) | 屋上から街を見渡した。I surveyed the town from the roof. |
| 芽生える | to sprout, to begin to stir (めばえる) | 新しい希望が芽生えてきた。New hope has begun to stir. |
| 日に焼ける | to tan, to get sunburnt (ひにやける) | 夏休みですっかり日に焼けた。I got thoroughly tanned over the summer holiday. |
| 佇む | to stand still, to linger (たたずむ) | 彼は駅前に佇んでいた。He was standing there in front of the station. |
| 連なる | to be linked in a row, to stretch out (つらなる) | 山々が遠くまで連なっている。Mountains stretch out into the distance. |
| 散らばる | to scatter, to be strewn about (ちらばる) | 書類が机の上に散らばっている。Documents are strewn across the desk. |
| 茜色 | madder red, the deep red of sunset (あかねいろ) | 空が茜色に染まっていく。The sky is turning deep red. |
| 寄り添う | to nestle close, to stay beside (よりそう) | 家族が寄り添って支え合った。The family stayed close and supported each other. |
| 呆れる | to be dumbfounded, to be exasperated (あきれる) | 呆れて物も言えなかった。I was too exasperated to speak. |
| 仕組み | a mechanism, how something works (しくみ) | 保険の仕組みを調べている。I'm looking into how insurance works. |
| 放つ | to release, to give off (はなつ) | 矢を的に向けて放った。He loosed an arrow at the target. |
| 一生懸命 | with all one's might (いっしょうけんめい) | 一生懸命練習した成果が出た。The results of practising hard showed. |
| 精一杯 | to the very utmost (せいいっぱい) | 精一杯やったので悔いはない。I gave it everything, so I have no regrets. |
| 吐息 | a sigh, an exhaled breath (といき) | 安堵の吐息をついた。I let out a sigh of relief. |
| 架かる | to span, to be built across (かかる) | 川に新しい橋が架かった。A new bridge has been built across the river. |
| 塞ぐ | to block, to stop up (ふさぐ) | 工事で道が塞がれている。The road is blocked by roadworks. |
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