Japanese Study Notes – 22 – 28 Apr 24
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Japanese Study Notes
17 Apr 24
WaniKani Study (Kanji + Vocab + Grammar) Session #1 (10 mins)
全体同期 (Sync Whole) – read + write + grammar + kanji + listen (1.5 hrs))
Sentences written
25 Apr 24
目の前で色が渦巻き、世界が、危険に傾いていく中、〈私の力が私を蝕むのはこれが最後なのだろうか〉と思いました。
As the colors swirled before my eyes and the world, tilted dangerously, I wondered, “Will this be the last time my power will consume me?
この思いは、能力が発現して、以来常につきまとっていた恐怖から開放感の感じでした。
This feeling was a sense of freedom from the fear that had always haunted me since the onset of my abilities.
自分が変わっていることはいつもわかっていたけれど、その才能がこんなひどい代償を伴うとは想像もしていなかったわ。
I always knew I was different, but I never imagined that my talent would come at such a terrible cost.
今、私の頭蓋骨を切り裂くような痛みと体の震えとともに、死ぬという至福の忘却を切望している自分に気づきました、心を読むことはできても、運命を書くことできない、若い女性、馬金華であることの重荷から逃れるために。
Now, with a pain that cuts through my skull and a tremor in my body, I find myself longing for the blissful oblivion of death, to escape the burden of being a young woman, Ma Jinhua, who can read minds but cannot write destiny.
私は手首を握って震えを抑え、息を吸い込みました。
I gripped my wrists to keep them from shaking and inhaled.
New Kanji
25 Apr 24
渦 – whirlpool
恐 – fear
償 – make up for
伴 – bring with
蓋 – cover, lid
裂 – rip, tear
至 – climax
忘 – forget
却 – withdraw
荷 – luggage
握 – grip
Interesting words
25 Apr 24
渦巻き (uzumaki) – to swirl
つきまとっていた – haunted (followed around)
恐怖 (kyoufu) – fear
代償 (daishou) – cost (of achieving a goal)
伴う (tomonau) – to accompany
頭蓋骨 (zugaikotsu) – skull, cranium
切り裂く (kirisaku) – to tear to pieces
至福 (shifuku) – supreme bliss
忘却 (boukyaku) – oblivion
切望 (setsubou) – burning desire
重荷 (omoni) – burden
握って – to grip
Grammar
Idioms/Expressions/Other Explanations
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