Mrs. GREEN APPLE · Japanese · 24 words
Variety
Variety (2015) is Mrs. GREEN APPLE's debut EP and already unusually wordy. Vip is a straight piece of contempt and supplies the vocabulary for it - 買い被り, 鼻につく, 虫唾が走る, 罵倒 - while Zenmai works in rust and winding-down (転寝, 錆びつく, 破滅, 躓く) and Doutoku to Sara plates morality as a meal: 盛り付ける, 彩り, 雁字搦め.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 幕開け | the opening, the curtain going up (まくあけ) | 新学期の幕開けを迎えた。The new term has opened. |
| 拝借 | borrowing (humble form) (はいしゃく) | お知恵を拝借できますか。Might I borrow your wisdom? |
| 策略 | a stratagem, a scheme (さくりゃく) | 相手の策略にはまってしまった。I fell into the other side's scheme. |
| 苦悩 | anguish, torment (くのう) | 長い苦悩の末に決断した。He decided after long anguish. |
| 微々たる | minute, negligible (びびたる) | 利益は微々たるものだった。The profit was negligible. |
| 反逆 | rebellion, revolt (はんぎゃく) | 体制への反逆と受け取られた。It was taken as a revolt against the system. |
| 基づく | to be based on, to rest on (もとづく) | この記事は事実に基づいている。This article is based on fact. |
| 言の葉 | words, language (poetic) (ことのは) | 古い言の葉の響きが好きだ。I love the sound of old words. |
| 尊い | precious, noble (とうとい) | 尊い命が失われた。Precious lives were lost. |
| 疎ましい | irksome, off-putting (うとましい) | その馴れ馴れしさが疎ましい。That over-familiarity is off-putting. |
| 買い被り | overrating someone, thinking too highly (かいかぶり) | それは買い被りというものです。That's rating me too highly. |
| 鼻につく | to become irritating, to grate (はなにつく) | その言い回しが鼻についてきた。That turn of phrase has started to grate. |
| 虫唾が走る | to find something revolting (むしずがはしる) | 思い出すだけで虫唾が走る。Just remembering it turns my stomach. |
| 愚か | foolish, stupid (おろか) | 愚かな判断だったと反省している。I regret what was a foolish decision. |
| 罵倒 | abuse, vilification (ばとう) | 観客から罵倒を浴びた。He was showered with abuse from the crowd. |
| 転寝 | a doze, a nap (うたたね) | こたつで転寝してしまった。I dozed off at the kotatsu. |
| 錆びつく | to rust up, to seize (さびつく) | 使わない道具は錆びつく。Tools you don't use rust up. |
| 破滅 | ruin, destruction (はめつ) | その道は破滅につながる。That path leads to ruin. |
| 黒幕 | the mastermind behind the scenes (くろまく) | 事件の黒幕が明らかになった。The mastermind behind the affair came to light. |
| 躓く | to stumble, to trip (つまずく) | 段差に躓いて転んだ。I tripped on the step and fell. |
| 雁字搦め | bound hand and foot, tied up in something (がんじがらめ) | 規則で雁字搦めになっている。We're tied up hand and foot by rules. |
| 彩り | colouring, a splash of colour (いろどり) | 皿に彩りを添えた。I added a splash of colour to the plate. |
| 狼狽 | dismay, being thrown into confusion (ろうばい) | 予想外の質問に狼狽した。I was thrown by the unexpected question. |
| 程遠い | far from, nowhere near (ほどとおい) | 完成には程遠い出来だ。The result is nowhere near finished. |
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