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Human Bloom, Part 1
人間開花 / Human Bloom (2016) is the album that carried Zenzenzense out of Your Name and into everyone's ears. This half pairs that song with Toaru Haru no Hi, a letter to a listener, so the vocabulary is full of correspondence and exposure - 宛名, 恥じらい, 晒す, 無様 - next to the wide-eyed 追い越す and 口ずさむ of Zenzenzense itself.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 能天気 | happy-go-lucky, airheaded (のうてんき) | 彼は能天気だが憎めない。He's happy-go-lucky, but you can't dislike him. |
| 藪から棒 | out of the blue, without warning (やぶからぼう) | 藪から棒にそんなこと言われても困る。Springing that on me out of the blue puts me on the spot. |
| 奥底 | the very bottom, the depths (おくそこ) | 心の奥底では分かっていた。Deep down I knew. |
| 本能 | instinct (ほんのう) | 動物の本能はあなどれない。Animal instinct is not to be underestimated. |
| 禁物 | something to be avoided at all costs (きんもつ) | この作業に油断は禁物だ。Carelessness is the one thing to avoid in this work. |
| ひと際 | conspicuously, strikingly (ひときわ) | その建物はひと際目立っていた。That building stood out strikingly. |
| 幼なじみ | a childhood friend (おさななじみ) | 彼とは幼なじみで気心が知れている。He's a childhood friend, so we understand each other. |
| 宛名 | the addressee's name (on a letter) (あてな) | 封筒の宛名を書き間違えた。I wrote the addressee's name on the envelope wrong. |
| 恥じらい | bashfulness, shyness (はじらい) | 恥じらいながら小さく頷いた。She nodded slightly, abashed. |
| 無様 | unsightly, pathetic (ぶざま) | 無様な負け方をしてしまった。We lost in a pathetic fashion. |
| 忌み嫌う | to detest, to loathe (いみきらう) | 彼はその言葉を忌み嫌っていた。He loathed that word. |
| 追い越す | to overtake, to pass (おいこす) | 前の車を追い越した。I overtook the car ahead. |
| 戯れる | to frolic, to play about (たわむれる) | 子犬が庭で戯れている。The puppies are frolicking in the garden. |
| 果て | the end, the farthest edge (はて) | 地の果てまで行ってみたい。I'd like to travel to the ends of the earth. |
| 旗 | a flag (はた) | 屋上に旗が立っている。A flag is flying on the roof. |
| 口ずさむ | to hum, to sing softly to oneself (くちずさむ) | 母は台所で古い歌を口ずさんでいた。My mother was humming an old song in the kitchen. |
| 順序 | order, sequence (じゅんじょ) | 順序よく並べてください。Please arrange them in order. |
| 誇る | to take pride in, to boast (ほこる) | この町は古い建物を誇っている。This town takes pride in its old buildings. |
| 筋合い | grounds or right (to say something) (すじあい) | 君に文句を言われる筋合いはない。You have no grounds to complain to me. |
| 表紙 | the cover of a book (ひょうし) | その本は表紙が破れている。That book's cover is torn. |
| 使い果たす | to use up entirely (つかいはたす) | 旅費を使い果たしてしまった。I used up all my travel money. |
| 灰色 | grey (はいいろ) | 空は一日中灰色だった。The sky was grey all day. |
| 陽炎 | a heat haze, shimmering air (かげろう) | 夏の道路に陽炎が立っていた。A heat haze shimmered over the summer road. |
| 名字 | a surname, a family name (みょうじ) | 同じ名字の人が三人もいる。There are three people with the same surname. |
| 鈍い | dull, slow, blunt (にぶい) | 寝不足で頭の働きが鈍い。I'm short on sleep and my thinking is dull. |
| 裏切り | a betrayal (うらぎり) | その一言は裏切りに等しかった。That single remark amounted to a betrayal. |
| 待ち構える | to lie in wait, to be all set for (まちかまえる) | 報道陣が出口で待ち構えていた。The press were lying in wait at the exit. |
| 居眠り | dozing off (いねむり) | 電車で居眠りして乗り過ごした。I dozed off on the train and missed my stop. |
| 台詞 | a line, a speech (in a play) (せりふ) | 彼は自分の台詞を完璧に覚えた。He memorised his lines perfectly. |
| 唱える | to chant, to recite, to advocate (となえる) | 彼は別の説を唱えている。He advocates a different theory. |
| 内緒 | a secret (ないしょ) | これは二人だけの内緒にしよう。Let's keep this a secret between the two of us. |
| 栄光 | glory (えいこう) | 栄光の裏には長い努力があった。Behind the glory lay long years of effort. |
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