Saihate no Ima – Vocabulary list

メトロノーム

metronome

1

夜よるの帳とばり

veil of darkness; curtain of night

1

秋しゅう波は

amorous glance; wink

1

渦うず

whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom

2

さい

ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

1

ワールド

world

1

不ふ法ほう投とう棄き

illegal dumping; fly-tipping

2

日にち曜よう大だい工く

weekend carpentry; do-it-yourself; DIY; weekend carpenter; do-it-yourselfer

1

各かく自じ

each (person); everyone; individual; respective

2

持もち寄より

potluck

1

男おとこ衆しゅう

men; manservant; male attendants to an actor

2

机つくえに向むかう

to sit at a desk (to study); to be at one's desk; to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

2

解かい放ほう感かん

sense of liberation; feeling of freedom

1

さりげない

nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner

2

川かわ底ぞこ

riverbed

1

譲ゆずる

to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede

3

一いっ線せん

one line; (a) single line; boundary; line (between things); forefront; front line

4

喉のど元もと過すぎれば熱あつさを忘わすれる

danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; (lit.) once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object)

1

奇き禍か

unforeseen misfortune

1

推すい奨しょう

recommendation; endorsement

7

電でん話わがかかってくる

to get a phone call

1

制せい空くう権けん

control of the air; air supremacy

1

その内うちに

before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

2

無む神しん経けい

insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned

2

気きに障さわる

to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way

1

これ見みよがし

showy; ostentatious

1

ドリブル

dribble (of a ball or puck); dribbling

1

リフティング

football juggling; soccer ball juggling; lifting (in a rugby line-out); (breast) lifting surgery

2

煙けむたい

smoky; awkward; uncomfortable; ill at ease

2

ドッジボール

dodgeball

1

籠かご

basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

4

早はや足あし

quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)

2

一いっ拍ぱく

one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)

1

そぶり

behavior; behaviour; manner; attitude; bearing

2

情じょう緒ちょ不ふ安あん定てい

emotional instability

3

こうやって

thus; in this way

2

今いままでにない

unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history

2

マイナス

minus; subtraction; negative (number); deficit; loss; disadvantage; drawback

6

失しつ望ぼう

disappointment; despair

2

難なん癖くせ

fault

2

バスケ

basketball

1

断ことわり

notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal

2

闘とう志し

fighting spirit; (will to) fight

2

初うい陣じん

one's first campaign; one's first battle

1

つかつか

walking briskly; determinedly

2

紅こう顔がん

rosy cheeks

1

色いろ気け

colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm

1

締しまる

to be shut; to close; to be firm (of a body, face, etc.); to be well-knit; to be locked; to tighten

2

変へん態たい性せい欲よく

abnormal sexuality; sexual perversion

1

しゃちほこばる

to stand on ceremony; to stiffen up (the nerves); to be tense

1

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Vocabulary list: Saihate no Ima