reading notes, すーちゃん

すーちゃん～9

From page 60 to 65. This is a very interesting story about Suchan’s workplace. It is a very different environment than Maichan’s but she has to face difficulties, too. Especially to keep smooth relationships with a bunch of young girls very sensible. I really like the way the author describes, in very simple drawings and dialogues, the vicissitudes of any working place and the complexity of human relations.

  • のんびり　carefree, at leisure
  • やっぱ　seems to be a variant of やっぱり
  • 陰で・かげで　behind one’s back
  • 竹田　is a name, but I don’t know how it is pronounced… maybe たけだ?
  • 爪・つめ　nail

Wait, is she telling her employee to cut her nails because they are too long? 😲

  • きつい　sever, hard. I knew this word to say “tight” but I didn’t know it could be used to describe a way of speaking.
  • すねる・拗ねる　to be peevish, to sulk
  • 不機嫌・ふきげん　ill humour, displeasure
  • ぴりぴり　the dictionary says “to tingle, sting” or “become tense”. I guess it’s just an image to convey the idea of something spreading in all directions?
  • ムカつく　to feel irritated, offended, to feel angry
  • 誉める・ほめる　to praise. I knew the kanji 褒める. Why do I feel like it’s never the kanji I know that comes out? 😒
  • ずらす　to put off, to delay, to postpone
  • デニーズ　is Denny’s, a family restaurant that serves pancakes, coffee and casual dining or something like that. It seems to be popular in many countries but as it doesn’t exist in France I didn’t know it…
  • さっぱり　I don’t understand this meaning here… さっぱりする usually means “feeling refreshed” but I can hardly believe that the chief’s coming to the shop was “refreshing”. I am not at ease with those kind of words that have so many meanings…
  • うっとうしい　can mean “gloomy”, “depressing” but I think that it means “irritating”, “troublesome” here.
  • 悪役・あくやく　the villain’s part
  • 団結・だんけつ　unity, union

Is she saying that, if there is a villain, the other members of the workplace get united? I don’t know if I understand the Japanese correctly, but it seems to make sense, I have experienced it myself.

  • さつまあげ　deep-fried ball of fish paste. Now I remember that this word already appeared in one of the first stories.
  • うざがる　to behave annoyed, to feel annoyed… But, it is in the passive form in the text… うざがられる. What could be the passive form of “to be annoyed”? 😟　Sometimes I just get confused with it.
  • ひょっとしたら　possibly, perhaps

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