Thursday, October 9, 2014

Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai Episode 1

大図書館の羊飼い ~A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd~

I don't remember one of their names...

図書部結成
Toshobu kessei 
― Formation of tha Library Club

虫の知らせ程度のものだったけど
 Mushi no shirase teido no mono datta kedo
― I'd just get a sense of foreboding,

Literally: bug's news, message delivered by a bug
Actual meaning: to feel like something bad is going to happen, to have a premonition, a hunch, a sense of foreboding

虫(worm rather than bug/insect) was believed to live in the human body and have various influences on their consciousness and emotion.
The following idioms were also derived from such a thought.

がいい(mushi ga ii): selfish, self-seeking

の居所が悪い(mushi no idokoro ga warui): be in a bad mood


前代未聞の脱線事故。
 Zendai-mimon no dassen jiko
― It was an unprecendented derailing accident.

A four-character idiom.

西京漬け定食
 Sawara no saikyou-zuke teishoku
― I'll have the set with Japanese Spanish mackerel pickled in sweet Kyoto-style miso.


鱈(tara: cod) in this picture.

ふつつか者ですがよろしくお願いします。
 Futsutsuka-mono desuga yoroshiku onegai shimasu
― I may be inexperienced, but I look forward to serving you!

This line is a set phrase to express modesty.

ふつつか者: an inexperienced(incompetent) person

●そうやって優しい態度ばかり取るのはお人好しすぎるぞ。
 Sou yatte yasashii taido bakari toru no ha ohitoyoshi sugiru zo
― If you keep acting that nice, she's going to get the wrong idea, you know.

お人好し: good-naturedness, a good-natured person, a credulous person

叩き上げの図書部員を舐めるなよ!
 Tatakiage no tosho buin wo namerunayo
― Don't underestimate a self-made library club member!

叩き上げる:  work one's way up

●俺の男に手を出すとは良い度胸だ
 Ore no otoko ni te wo dasu to ha ii dokyou da
You have some nerve laying a finger on my man!

●相手にとって不足なし!
 Aite ni totte fusoku nashi
― All I could ask for in an oppenent!

I hear it as a set phrase, too.

●結局バカップルの野外プレイってことでその場はおさまった。
 Kekkyoku bakappuru no yagai-play tte koto de sono ba ha osamatta
― In the end, things clamed down with people thinking it was an idiot couple's exhibitionism.

●私すっごい引っ込み思案な性格で、
 Watashi suggoi hikkomijian na seikaku de
― I have a really introverted personality,

引っ込み思案: shy, retiring, unadventurous

横槍を入れるなら、もう少し準備をしてほしいわ。
 Yokoyari wo ireru nara mou sukoshi junbi wo shite hoshii wa
― If you are going to interpose, I hope you'll do so after you're more prepared.

Literally: to insert a spear from the side
Actual meaning: to interrupt, interfere

●図書部って幽霊部員しかいないって思ってたけど、
 Toshobu tte yuurei-buin shika inai tte omotteta kedo
― I thought the library club only had members who never actually came,

Literally means "phantom member of a school club."

[Example]
・幽霊会社(yuurei-gaisha): a bogus/dummy/paper company

放置プレイ
 Houchi-play
― Public humiliation fetish?

~プレイ: sexual playing, fetich, -philia, -lagnia, -ism

[Example]
・羞恥プレイ(shuuchi-play): humiliation fetish

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