Official HIGE DANdism · Japanese · 33 words
Rejoice, Part 2
Rejoice closes on Subtitle, the Silent theme, which is about the gap between what you mean and what lands - 拗らせる, 一挙手一投足, 生温い, 理論武装. Urami Tsurami Kiwami is a whole song of venting and supplies the vocabulary for it (気に病む, 毒づく, 承認欲求, 癪に障る), while Chessboard and B-Side Blues turn gentle: 猫じゃらし, 蒔く, 月並み, 移ろう.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 拗らせる | to let something fester or grow complicated (こじらせる) | 風邪を拗らせて長引いている。I let a cold turn into something worse and it's dragging on. |
| 火傷 | a burn, a scald (やけど) | 熱湯で指に火傷をした。I burned my finger on boiling water. |
| 残酷 | cruel, brutal (ざんこく) | 残酷な結末の映画だった。It was a film with a brutal ending. |
| 一挙手一投足 | one's every move (いっきょしゅいっとうそく) | 監督の一挙手一投足に注目が集まる。Attention is on the manager's every move. |
| 結晶 | a crystal, the fruit of something (けっしょう) | 雪の結晶を顕微鏡で見た。I looked at snow crystals under a microscope. |
| 崩れ落ちる | to crumble away, to collapse (くずれおちる) | 古い塀が音を立てて崩れ落ちた。The old wall collapsed with a crash. |
| 生温い | lukewarm, half-hearted (なまぬるい) | 生温いお茶はおいしくない。Lukewarm tea isn't nice. |
| 切り裂く | to slash, to rip open (きりさく) | 稲光が夜空を切り裂いた。Lightning ripped across the night sky. |
| 唸る | to growl, to groan, to roar (うなる) | エンジンが低く唸っている。The engine is growling low. |
| 矛先 | the point of a spear, the target of criticism (ほこさき) | 批判の矛先が社長に向かった。The brunt of the criticism turned on the president. |
| 覗き込む | to peer into (のぞきこむ) | 井戸の中を覗き込んだ。I peered down into the well. |
| 拭う | to wipe away (ぬぐう) | 彼女は涙を拭って立ち上がった。She wiped away her tears and stood up. |
| 痛くも痒くもない | not bothered in the least (いたくもかゆくもない) | その程度の批判は痛くも痒くもない。Criticism at that level doesn't bother me at all. |
| 気に病む | to fret over, to let something weigh on you (きにやむ) | 小さな失敗を気に病まないで。Don't fret over a small mistake. |
| 気遣う | to be considerate of, to worry about (きづかう) | 体調を気遣ってくれてありがとう。Thank you for your concern about my health. |
| 気のおけない | relaxed, requiring no formality (きのおけない) | 気のおけない友人と飲んだ。I had a drink with friends I can relax around. |
| 毒づく | to curse, to speak venomously (どくづく) | 彼は上司に毒づいていた。He was cursing his boss. |
| 不毛 | fruitless, barren (ふもう) | 不毛な議論を繰り返している。We keep repeating a fruitless argument. |
| 承認欲求 | a craving for approval (しょうにんよっきゅう) | 承認欲求に振り回されたくない。I don't want to be driven by a craving for approval. |
| 癪に障る | to be irritating, to get on one's nerves (しゃくにさわる) | あの言い方が癪に障る。That way of putting it gets on my nerves. |
| 市松模様 | a checkerboard pattern (いちまつもよう) | 床は市松模様のタイルだ。The floor is checkerboard tiling. |
| 不時着 | an emergency landing (ふじちゃく) | 機体は砂漠に不時着した。The aircraft made an emergency landing in the desert. |
| 猫じゃらし | foxtail grass (ねこじゃらし) | 土手に猫じゃらしが揺れている。Foxtail grass sways on the embankment. |
| 地に足がつく | to be grounded, to be down to earth (ちにあしがつく) | ようやく地に足がついてきた。I'm finally finding my feet. |
| 羨む | to envy (うらやむ) | 人を羨んでも何も変わらない。Envying others changes nothing. |
| 蒔く | to sow (seeds) (まく) | 春に向けて種を蒔いた。I sowed seeds for the spring. |
| 間柄 | the relationship between people (あいだがら) | 何でも言い合える間柄だ。We're on terms where we can say anything. |
| 道すがら | on the way, as one goes (みちすがら) | 道すがら本屋に寄った。I stopped at a bookshop on the way. |
| 命からがら | barely escaping with one's life (いのちからがら) | 命からがら逃げ延びた。They escaped with their lives, barely. |
| 慣れっこ | quite used to it (なれっこ) | 残業にはもう慣れっこだ。I'm quite used to overtime by now. |
| 月並み | commonplace, run-of-the-mill (つきなみ) | 月並みな表現になってしまった。It came out as a rather commonplace phrase. |
| 浸る | to be immersed in, to bask in (ひたる) | 余韻に浸っていた。I was basking in the afterglow. |
| 移ろう | to shift, to change with time (うつろう) | 季節が移ろうのを感じる。You can feel the seasons shifting. |
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