Official HIGE DANdism · Japanese · 33 words
エスカパレード
エスカパレード (2018) was Higedan's major-label debut. 115万キロのフィルム frames a whole relationship as a film shoot - 助演, 見どころ, 覆す, 苗字 - Sousou Souai is a break-up argued in legal-sounding phrases (余地, 言い切る, 中途半端, 今後一切), and Hatsumeika supplies the vocabulary of refusing to sit still: 反抗期, 好奇心, 脱出, 起死回生.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 助演 | a supporting role (じょえん) | 彼は助演で賞を取った。He won an award for a supporting role. |
| 呆れる | to be dumbfounded, to be fed up (あきれる) | あまりの言い草に呆れてしまった。I was dumbfounded by the way he put it. |
| 些細 | trivial, slight (ささい) | 些細なことで言い争ってしまった。We argued over something trivial. |
| 覆す | to overturn, to overthrow (くつがえす) | 新しい証拠が結論を覆した。New evidence overturned the conclusion. |
| 苗字 | a surname, a family name (みょうじ) | 結婚して苗字が変わった。My surname changed when I married. |
| 引き裂く | to tear apart, to rip (ひきさく) | 手紙を引き裂いて捨てた。I tore the letter up and threw it away. |
| 噂話 | gossip, idle talk (うわさばなし) | 職場の噂話には加わらない。I don't join in the office gossip. |
| 偏見 | prejudice, bias (へんけん) | 偏見のない目で見てほしい。I want you to look without prejudice. |
| 知るよしもない | to have no way of knowing (しるよしもない) | 当時の事情など知るよしもない。I have no way of knowing the circumstances then. |
| 欲張り | greedy, a greedy person (よくばり) | 欲張りすぎて全部失った。He got greedy and lost the lot. |
| 責め立てる | to badger, to reproach relentlessly (せめたてる) | 失敗を責め立てても仕方がない。Badgering someone over a mistake achieves nothing. |
| 募る | to grow stronger, to intensify (つのる) | 不安が日に日に募っていく。The anxiety grows stronger by the day. |
| 余生 | the rest of one's life (よせい) | 余生は静かに過ごしたい。I'd like to spend my remaining years quietly. |
| 耳打ち | whispering in someone's ear (みみうち) | 彼は隣の人に耳打ちした。He whispered to the person beside him. |
| 矛盾 | a contradiction (むじゅん) | 説明に矛盾がある。There's a contradiction in the explanation. |
| 華奢 | slender, delicate (きゃしゃ) | 華奢な体つきの人だった。She was of slender build. |
| 無我夢中 | utterly absorbed, lost in the moment (むがむちゅう) | 無我夢中で走り続けた。I ran on, completely lost in it. |
| 見損なう | to misjudge, to think less of (みそこなう) | 彼のことを見損なっていた。I had misjudged him. |
| 相思相愛 | mutual love, loving each other (そうしそうあい) | 二人は相思相愛だった。The two were in love with each other. |
| 余地 | room, scope, latitude (よち) | 改善の余地はまだある。There is still room for improvement. |
| 言い切る | to state flatly, to assert (いいきる) | 彼は問題ないと言い切った。He asserted flatly that there was no problem. |
| 中途半端 | half-hearted, half-finished (ちゅうとはんぱ) | 中途半端なまま放り出したくない。I don't want to abandon it half-finished. |
| かき分ける | to push one's way through (かきわける) | 人混みをかき分けて進んだ。I pushed my way through the crowd. |
| 筋書き | a plot, a scenario (すじがき) | すべて筋書き通りに進んだ。It all went according to the script. |
| しわ寄せ | the knock-on burden of something (しわよせ) | 無理な納期のしわ寄せが現場に来る。The burden of an impossible deadline lands on the floor staff. |
| 色あせる | to fade, to lose its colour (いろあせる) | 日に当たってカーテンが色あせた。The curtains faded in the sun. |
| 吊り橋 | a suspension bridge (つりばし) | 谷にかかる吊り橋を渡った。We crossed the suspension bridge over the valley. |
| 反抗期 | a rebellious phase (はんこうき) | 息子はいま反抗期の真っ最中だ。My son is right in the middle of a rebellious phase. |
| 好奇心 | curiosity (こうきしん) | 好奇心から扉を開けてみた。I opened the door out of curiosity. |
| 墓参り | visiting a grave (はかまいり) | お盆に家族で墓参りをした。We visited the grave as a family at Obon. |
| ずぶ濡れ | soaked to the skin (ずぶぬれ) | 傘がなくてずぶ濡れになった。I had no umbrella and got soaked through. |
| 冴えない | dull, lacklustre, off-form (さえない) | 今日はどうも冴えない顔をしている。You look rather off-colour today. |
| 起死回生 | turning things around from the brink (きしかいせい) | 起死回生の一打が出た。A game-turning hit came at last. |
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