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Blame Summer EP
夏のせい EP (2020) was written into a summer nobody got to have, and it shows. The title track piles up the vocabulary of being left behind by a season - 取り残す, 跡形, 果てしない - while Shinsekai turns bleak and formal (皆無, 罵声, 優劣, 生け贄) and Cocorononaca closes on the words of endurance: 容赦, 覚悟, 子孫.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 取り残す | to leave behind (とりのこす) | 私だけ話題から取り残された。I alone was left out of the conversation. |
| 背伸び | stretching up, overreaching oneself (せのび) | 背伸びせず自分らしくいたい。I want to be myself without overreaching. |
| 助走 | a run-up (じょそう) | 助走をつけて跳んだ。He took a run-up and jumped. |
| 忙しない | restless, hurried (せわしない) | 年末は何かと忙しない。The end of the year is hectic one way or another. |
| 果てしない | endless, boundless (はてしない) | 果てしない議論に疲れた。I'm tired of the endless discussion. |
| 跡形 | a trace, a vestige (あとかた) | 建物は跡形もなく消えていた。The building had vanished without a trace. |
| 長引く | to drag on, to be prolonged (ながびく) | 会議が予定より長引いた。The meeting dragged on longer than planned. |
| 覚悟 | readiness, resolve, bracing oneself (かくご) | 厳しい結果も覚悟している。I'm braced for a harsh result too. |
| 命題 | a proposition, a thesis (めいだい) | その命題は証明されていない。That proposition has not been proved. |
| 頼り切る | to rely on completely (たよりきる) | 人に頼り切るのはよくない。It's not good to rely on others completely. |
| 真新しい | brand new (まあたらしい) | 真新しい制服に袖を通した。I put on the brand-new uniform. |
| 憧れ | longing, yearning, admiration (あこがれ) | 子供の頃からパイロットへの憧れがあった。I've had a longing to be a pilot since childhood. |
| 憐れむ | to pity, to feel compassion for (あわれむ) | 憐れむような目で見られた。They looked at me with pity. |
| 背負う | to carry on one's back, to shoulder (せおう) | 彼は一人で責任を背負っている。He is shouldering the responsibility alone. |
| 噛み締める | to chew over, to savour fully (かみしめる) | 勝利の喜びを噛み締めた。They savoured the joy of victory. |
| 皆無 | none whatsoever (かいむ) | その可能性は皆無ではない。That possibility is not nonexistent. |
| 赤の他人 | a complete stranger (あかのたにん) | 昨日まで赤の他人だった。Until yesterday we were complete strangers. |
| 凪ぐ | to grow calm (of wind or sea) (なぐ) | 夕方になって海が凪いだ。The sea grew calm towards evening. |
| 罵声 | jeering, abusive shouting (ばせい) | 観客席から罵声が飛んだ。Jeers flew from the stands. |
| 生け贄 | a sacrifice, a scapegoat (いけにえ) | 誰かを生け贄にするのは違う。Making a scapegoat of someone is wrong. |
| 優劣 | relative merit, which is better (ゆうれつ) | 二案に優劣はつけがたい。It's hard to say which of the two is better. |
| 淀む | to stagnate, to grow sluggish (よどむ) | 空気が淀んでいるので窓を開けた。The air was stagnant so I opened a window. |
| 容赦 | mercy, leniency (ようしゃ) | 審査は容赦なく行われた。The review was conducted without mercy. |
| 踏みつける | to trample, to tread on (ふみつける) | 花壇を踏みつけないで。Don't trample the flower bed. |
| 涙袋 | the soft area beneath the eye (なみだぶくろ) | 涙袋にメイクをするのが流行っている。Making up the area under the eyes is in fashion. |
| 晴天の霹靂 | a bolt from the blue (せいてんのへきれき) | その知らせは晴天の霹靂だった。The news was a bolt from the blue. |
| 子孫 | descendants (しそん) | この森を子孫に残したい。I want to leave this forest to our descendants. |
| 最前線 | the front line (さいぜんせん) | 彼は研究の最前線に立っている。He stands at the front line of the research. |
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