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Human Bloom, Part 2
Human Bloom's second half runs from the self-lacerating Bouningen to the Sparkle that closed Your Name. Bouningen is a catalogue of the things people perform at each other - 謙遜, 甲斐, 始末 - while Kigou toshite supplies an unusually precise run of care and caution words (紙一重, 細心, 踏み外す) that carry straight over into ordinary writing.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 皆目 | utterly, not in the least (かいもく) | 原因は皆目わからない。The cause is utterly unknown. |
| 謙遜 | modesty, self-deprecation (けんそん) | 謙遜せずに素直に喜べばいい。You should just be glad rather than being modest. |
| 惜しむ | to begrudge, to be sparing of (おしむ) | 彼は協力を惜しまなかった。He spared no effort in helping. |
| 甲斐 | worth, the good it does (かい) | 練習した甲斐があった。The practice paid off. |
| 始末 | the upshot, a sorry state of affairs (しまつ) | 遅刻した上に忘れ物までする始末だ。He turned up late and then forgot things on top of it. |
| 土砂降り | a downpour (どしゃぶり) | 外は土砂降りで出られない。It's pouring outside and we can't go out. |
| 合図 | a signal, a cue (あいず) | 彼の合図で一斉に走り出した。At his signal they all started running. |
| 紙一重 | by a hair's breadth (かみひとえ) | 天才と変人は紙一重だと言われる。They say genius and eccentricity are a hair's breadth apart. |
| 曖昧 | vague, ambiguous (あいまい) | 曖昧な返事ではこまる。A vague answer won't do. |
| 踏み外す | to miss one's footing, to go astray (ふみはずす) | 階段を踏み外しそうになった。I nearly missed my footing on the stairs. |
| 嗚咽 | sobbing (おえつ) | 会場から嗚咽が漏れた。Sobbing could be heard from the hall. |
| 暗がり | darkness, a dark spot (くらがり) | 暗がりで足元が見えない。I can't see my feet in the dark. |
| 道しるべ | a signpost, a guide (みちしるべ) | 先輩の言葉が道しるべになった。My senior's words became a guide for me. |
| 置き去り | abandoning, leaving behind (おきざり) | 荷物を置き去りにしてはいけない。You mustn't leave your luggage behind. |
| 撫でる | to stroke, to pat (なでる) | 猫の背中をそっと撫でた。I gently stroked the cat's back. |
| 星座 | a constellation (せいざ) | 冬はオリオン星座がよく見える。Orion is easy to see in winter. |
| 飼いならす | to tame, to domesticate (かいならす) | 野生の鳥を飼いならすのは難しい。Taming a wild bird is difficult. |
| 砂時計 | an hourglass (すなどけい) | 砂時計をひっくり返して計った。I turned the hourglass over and timed it. |
| 序章 | a prologue, an opening chapter (じょしょう) | これはまだ序章にすぎない。This is still only the prologue. |
| 万華鏡 | a kaleidoscope (まんげきょう) | 子供の頃、万華鏡に夢中だった。As a child I was fascinated by kaleidoscopes. |
| 焼き付ける | to burn into (one's memory) (やきつける) | その景色を目に焼き付けた。I burned that scene into my memory. |
| 義務 | a duty, an obligation (ぎむ) | 報告する義務がある。There is an obligation to report it. |
| 羽ばたく | to flap one's wings, to take flight (はばたく) | 鳥が一斉に羽ばたいた。The birds all took wing at once. |
| 眉間 | the space between the eyebrows (みけん) | 眉間にしわを寄せて考え込んだ。He frowned and sank into thought. |
| 譲る | to yield, to give up, to hand over (ゆずる) | お年寄りに席を譲った。I gave up my seat to an elderly person. |
| 大げさ | exaggerated, over the top (おおげさ) | 大げさに言うつもりはない。I don't mean to exaggerate. |
| 遠慮 | holding back, declining out of consideration (えんりょ) | 遠慮せずに食べてください。Please help yourself without holding back. |
| 照れくさい | embarrassing, awkward (てれくさい) | 面と向かって褒められると照れくさい。Being praised to my face is embarrassing. |
| 見渡す | to look out over, to survey (みわたす) | 丘の上から町を見渡した。I looked out over the town from the hill. |
| 群れ | a crowd, a flock, a herd (むれ) | 羊の群れが道をふさいでいた。A flock of sheep was blocking the road. |
| 場違い | out of place, inappropriate to the setting (ばちがい) | 服装が場違いだった気がする。I feel my clothes were out of place. |
| 持て余す | to have more of something than one can handle (もてあます) | 長い休みを持て余している。I have more free time than I know what to do with. |
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