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She makes/forces them (= young teachers) do her ways.
Right.
Yes.
As you know, 下らなかないの is a contraction of 下らなくはないの, meaning "isn't it worthless~?"
This line is Asako's words. Kubo uses polite words for Asako.
She makes/forces them (= young teachers) do her ways.What 私喧嘩したってこうと思うことはやって貰うんです。That she discusses with them because they behave like this?
Right.Afterwards, she says that they might find her an awful woman, but when there is a "situation" with a child, she is the one who has to deal with it, right?
Yes.And is my understanding correct here?
「子供、もっと放っといてやらなけりゃ」You should let the kids do as they want
As you know, 下らなかないの is a contraction of 下らなくはないの, meaning "isn't it worthless~?"「愛想のいい子供なんて拵えたって、下らなかないの」What would 下らなかない literally mean? "You can't bear the idea that I brought up a nice kid"?
I see, so it would be more like: "What is the good of bringing up a nice/gentle kid?" Which would be more in line with her previous comment: "Let they do as they want", right?As you know, 下らなかないの is a contraction of 下らなくはないの, meaning "isn't it worthless~?"
This line is Asako's words. Kubo uses polite words for Asako.
Yes, it's the former. You need to get that it's actually Asako's surname from their conversation, and you can confirm it from other scenes. (白杉 appears three times in the novel.) 金も出せるようになる means that Aihara would be able to give money to her company.when Aihara talks, is he talking to Shirasugi, who is there, or talking about Shirasugi? It would be the former to me, something like: "Well, Shirasugi, you too should do something! He (Moroto) might give us some money."
It's something like "do your best".What would 一つ確りやって下さい mean?
She is thinking about the needle of a compass amidst her reminiscences of Kubo and Aihara's life.what would the meaning of this 間には be?
Hmm, I can't think of a good translation of the word. She uses 草木を伸び育てる大切な芽 and 敏感な本源的な魂の触覚 to compare it. "Forefront" might be more neutral, and therefore could be more appropriate.I've translated 生存の尖端 as something like "existence's vanguard", do you have a different opinion?
Your skills are way beyond mine so I hesitate to say anything but why wouldn't it be "I thought I was ok even when I wasn't"Well, I think that this is my last big existencial question about this text before rereading it I tying all the knots that are still loose. Asako repeats the phrase 大丈夫でなくて
も、大丈夫だと思っちゃった, when Sachiko asks her if she is okay. Is it simply "I'm okay even if I'm not"?
Yes.Asako repeats the phrase 大丈夫でなくて
も、大丈夫だと思っちゃった, when Sachiko asks her if she is okay. Is it simply "I'm okay even if I'm not"?
She actually is referring to her future thoughts here, something like "I must be OK even if I come across such a situation (as far as I have "la point de la vie" in my mind)".why wouldn't it be "I thought I was ok even when I wasn't"
I'm really far from having a great skill! I could study the language my whole life and still be lacking. But I enjoy learning and having the help of this forum and Tori's is really helpful because there are things that books can't teach.Your skills are way beyond mine so I hesitate to say anything but why wouldn't it be "I thought I was ok even when I wasn't"
Yes, there would be a problem of logic and context if it were interpreted in the past. This text is/was hard, I wonder if this is the reason why there are so few works of hers translated into other languages.... She takes long turns or writes things that sound so peculiar to me to convey simple ideas!She actually is referring to her future thoughts here, something like "I must be OK even if I come across such a situation (as far as I have "la point de la vie" in my mind)".
I, too, think it's weird, but it indeed means so.Does ぽっとさせて mean "blushing" here? I've found it as having this meaning, but "making her upper eyelids blush" sounds weird.
Yes.does 落ち in the passage below mean that despite the fact that men and women are both worn out (by their jobs), women end up being considered more inexperienced and less of a person as men?
Hi, we don't have an equivalent to -san here and it is complicated to convey this nuance in my language... I think I will leave it as Sachi. The only translation of this text i've found is in Spanish, by the reviews I've read, the translators also used Sachiko. I've ordered the book because I'm curious about the solutions to some issues I'm still not satisfied with, hope it arrives until the end of this year, I was too cheap to pay for the express shipping.お幸さん is more friendly, but also with respect. Something like "Sachi-san/Yuki-san" doesn't make much sense?
By the way, regarding the reading of お幸さん, おさちさん is not impossible, but おゆきさん or おこうさん is more familiar to my ears. こうこ is rare for 幸子, so ゆきこ might be the correct reading.
Yes, "san" would be translated as "mr", "mrs", an honorific title in Portuguese as well and would not convey this sense of intimacy. Simply "Sachi", an abbreviation of her name, would work better. Sachiko uses "Asappe", which I think I will keep and add an explanation note because I find it cute.I think "-san" is somewhat known as a Japanese honorific title in English. The Oxford Dictionary has an entry of "-san", and we can hear that an announcer shouts "Big fly Ohtani-san!!" when Ohtani Shohei hits a home-run in Major League Baseball games live on TV. It's not so well-known in Portuguese?
幸子 is talking to 大平, thus, あんた refers to 大平. She is saying "due to the sadness that we are cousins" by 従兄の悲しさに.Sachiko says that due to her cousin's sadness, she and Asako seems to be sadists according to Apfelbach's method of personality classification.
It's "the presence of a masochist with a high moral standard like Asako is an harmonic factor."But then she explains that the presence of a sadist with a high moral standard like Asako is an harmonic factor. Is Asako then a sadist or a masochist according to Apfelbach´s method?
The latter.And the harmony is related to her relationship with Ohira or to the three of them?
Yes.And when Sachiko says 同じサディスト, is she saying that she is a sadist like her cousin?
And is the meaning here literally "as wagging the morning's tail"?
角を曲る急な動作でモウニングの尾を煽（あお）るようにしながら、左手を後へ振り、諸戸は、
「直ぐ！ 直ぐだ」
Thanks!