日本文化 １６

Question 1

なんとはなしに

Answer 1

なんとはなく
for no particular reason, for some reason or other, somehow or other

Question 2

ばたばた

Answer 2

rushing (bustling) about, busily, hurriedly, いそがしい feeling

Question 3

絶えず

Answer 3

たえず
constantly, always, continually, steadily

Question 4

ひょいと

Answer 4

abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly

Question 5

表

Answer 5

おもて
outside (そと、 front (of a building, etc.)

Question 6

仕草

Answer 6

しぐさ
motion, gesture (mannerism), movement

Question 7

ほのか (な）

Answer 7

faint, dim, vague
(light, smell, sound…)

Question 8

さしかける

Answer 8

to hold (umbrella) over
usually paired with かさ

Question 9

身を寄せる

Answer 9

みをよせる
to lean in close to (come closer)
to live under another’s roof (staying with)

Question 10

添える

Answer 10

そえる
to accompany (as a card does a gift)、to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.)

Question 11

辱める

Answer 11

はずかしめる
to make other embarrassed, to put to shame, to humiliate, to disgrace, to insult

Question 12

乱れる

Answer 12

みだれる
to be messy, jumbled, to be disordered, to be disarranged, to be disarrayed, to be disheveled

Question 13

輝く

Answer 13

かがやく
to twinkle, to shine, to sparkle, to glitter, to glisten, to light up (with happiness, hope, etc.), to beam

Question 14

触れる

Answer 14

ふれる
touch (but sort of lightly, like a nudge), to feel, make contact with

Question 15

掻き上げる

Answer 15

かきあげる
to push up (one’s hair) with one’s fingers, to comb up, to smooth back (a wisp of hair), run finger through hair