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Originally Posted by delacroix01
I'm having trouble with some phrases I caught while reading text in a game, so here come my questions for today.
1/ Does 外せない用事 mean something that must be done?
2/ How do you read 聖乙女? Is it せいおとめ?
3/ When talking about a person, does ネジが緩い mean "to have a screw loose in one's head"?
There's also text from a manga that I'm not really sure about :
4/ http://i.imgur.com/ZNiRG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BjExk.jpg
なんてことだ…もう…人の言葉ですらない…
Am I right to assume that もう人の言葉ですらない means "she doesn't sound like human anymore"?
5/ 力が湧いてくる！いける！！
By the first line, does the speaker mean "power is surging inside me"?
6/ http://i.imgur.com/bXC8V.jpg
でもこの調子ならいつもの力押しでイケそうだなぁ…
For this line, I'm going to try a translation.
7/ a/ ええ、あの子の想いを支える大事な要素、それは――わ がまま
b/ 復讐のために生きるのはこの人の勝手だ。でもそれで家 族が不幸になるなんてボクは嫌だ。だからボクは親子で 普通に暮らしたいっていう ささやかな願いを無視させるくだらない想いの塊を…吹 き飛ばさないと気が済まないんだ！
I have seen the word 想い used regularly in manga, but the word has so many definitions in dictionaries that I'm confused. Can someone tell me what its meaning might be in a and b? |
1. Exactly.
2. Hard to say because it is a proper noun. It would be either ひじりおとめ or せいおとめ.
3. Right. It is a nicer way of saying "dumb".
4. Precisely.
5. Exactly.
6. Whether "brute" is a good word or not would depend on the context, but I can say that you are on the right track. Without context, i would settle for something like "my usual power play".
7a. I am thinking of "attachment" but the context might prove it wrong.
7b. "Desire" of the selfish kind.