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Weathering With You
The five sung songs from 天気の子 / Weathering With You. Ai ni Dekiru Koto is the band at its most rhetorical - 支配者, 憎悪, 荒野, 立ち向かう - while Daijoubu works entirely in water imagery (水底, 足掻く, 気泡) and Grand Escape supplies the vocabulary of leaving the ground behind: 重力, 死角, 帆, 木漏れ日.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 隙間 | a gap, a crevice (すきま) | ドアの隙間から光が漏れている。Light is leaking through the gap in the door. |
| 支配者 | a ruler, one who holds power (しはいしゃ) | その国の支配者が交代した。That country's ruler changed. |
| 背ける | to turn away (one's eyes or face) (そむける) | 痛ましい光景から目を背けた。I turned my eyes away from the harrowing scene. |
| 立ち向かう | to stand up to, to confront (たちむかう) | 彼は困難に正面から立ち向かった。He confronted the difficulty head-on. |
| 鎧 | armour (よろい) | 博物館に古い鎧が展示されている。Old armour is on display at the museum. |
| 憎悪 | hatred, loathing (ぞうお) | 憎悪からは何も生まれない。Nothing comes of hatred. |
| 荒野 | wilderness, wasteland (こうや) | 一行は荒野を進んでいった。The party pressed on across the wasteland. |
| 舵 | a rudder, the helm (かじ) | 船長が大きく舵を切った。The captain swung the helm hard over. |
| 利き手 | one's dominant hand (ききて) | 利き手を怪我して不便だ。Injuring my dominant hand is inconvenient. |
| 信号機 | traffic lights (しんごうき) | 交差点に信号機が設置された。Traffic lights were installed at the intersection. |
| 傲慢 | arrogance, haughtiness (ごうまん) | その態度は傲慢に映る。That attitude comes across as arrogant. |
| 振り子 | a pendulum (ふりこ) | 古い時計の振り子が止まった。The old clock's pendulum stopped. |
| 乗り遅れる | to miss (a train), to fall behind (のりおくれる) | 最終電車に乗り遅れてしまった。I missed the last train. |
| 水底 | the bottom of the water (みなそこ) | 水底に沈んだ石が見える。You can see stones sunk on the bottom. |
| 足掻く | to struggle, to flounder (あがく) | 今さら足掻いても遅い。It's too late to struggle now. |
| 気泡 | a bubble (きほう) | ガラスに小さな気泡が入っている。There are tiny bubbles in the glass. |
| 採算 | profitability (さいさん) | この価格では採算が取れない。We can't turn a profit at this price. |
| 頼りない | unreliable, not to be counted on (たよりない) | 頼りない返事しかもらえなかった。All I got was a noncommittal answer. |
| 重々 | fully, only too well (じゅうじゅう) | 重々承知しております。I am fully aware of it. |
| 降りかかる | to befall, to come raining down on (ふりかかる) | 思わぬ災難が降りかかった。An unexpected misfortune befell them. |
| 引き換え | in exchange for (ひきかえ) | 引換券と商品を引き換えた。I exchanged the voucher for the goods. |
| 重力 | gravity (じゅうりょく) | 月の重力は地球より小さい。The Moon's gravity is weaker than Earth's. |
| 木漏れ日 | sunlight filtering through leaves (こもれび) | 林の中の木漏れ日が気持ちいい。The light through the trees in the wood feels lovely. |
| 名乗る | to give one's name, to call oneself (なのる) | 電話ではまず名乗ってください。Please give your name first on the phone. |
| 死角 | a blind spot (しかく) | その角は運転手の死角になる。That corner is a blind spot for drivers. |
| 待ち焦がれる | to long for, to wait impatiently (まちこがれる) | 春の訪れを待ち焦がれている。I'm longing for spring to arrive. |
| 帆 | a sail (ほ) | ヨットが白い帆を張った。The yacht raised its white sail. |
| 憂鬱 | melancholy, gloom (ゆううつ) | 雨続きで憂鬱な気分だ。The constant rain has me feeling gloomy. |
| 決め台詞 | a signature line, the line someone is known for (きめぜりふ) | 主人公の決め台詞が印象に残る。The hero's signature line sticks with you. |
| 臆病 | timidity, cowardice (おくびょう) | 臆病なくらい慎重な人だ。He is cautious to the point of timidity. |
| 気配 | a sign, an indication, a presence (けはい) | 雨が上がる気配がない。There's no sign of the rain letting up. |
| 相づち | a nod of agreement, a backchannel response (あいづち) | 彼は適当に相づちを打っていた。He was making noncommittal noises of agreement. |
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