Quotes
Japanese meaning of どちらも選んでるようでどちらも見捨てている
— Rize ／ Tokyo Ghoul
Voice sample:
どちらもえらんでるようでどちらもみすてている (Dochira mo eranderu yō de dochira mo misutete iru.)
English Translation:
You seem to be choosing both, but you're really abandoning both.
Original Scene & Cultural Context
Scene in the Original Work:
In volume 7, chapter 63 of the Tokyo Ghoul manga, Kaneki, while being tortured by Yamori, tells the Rize who appears in his mind about his late mother's way of living: "Be someone who gets hurt rather than someone who hurts others." Rize answers that his mother, far from saving both sides, lost her own life, and that this was not "kindness" but simply "weakness". This line comes from that exchange.
日本語で読む
『東京喰種』7巻63話「喰種」。ヤモリの拷問を受けるカネキは、心の中に現れたリゼに、「傷つけるより傷つけられる人に」という亡き母の生き方を語る。リゼは、母は両方を救うどころか自分の命を失ったと言い、それは「優しさ」ではなくただ「弱い」だけだと突き放す。このセリフは、そのやりとりの中でリゼがカネキに告げる言葉。
Cultural Context:
Rize is the ghoul whose organs were transplanted into Kaneki at the start of the story. The Rize in this scene is not the real Rize but a figure in the mind of Kaneki, who has been pushed to his limit. The line could be used to point out that someone who cannot choose between two things is letting both down.
日本語で読む
リゼは、物語の始まりでその臓器がカネキに移植された喰種。この場面のリゼは本人ではなく、追いつめられたカネキの心の中に現れた存在。二つのものの間で決められずにいる人に、それでは結局どちらも守れないと指摘する場面で使うことも考えられる。
Grammar & Learning Points
Grammar Point
•「どちらも」= both (of two). •「選んでる」= casual form of 選んでいる. •「〜ようで」= it looks as if ~, but actually (sets up a contrast). •「見捨てている」= abandoning (見捨てる: to turn your back on someone who needs you).
日本語で読む
•「どちらも」は二つのうち両方。•「選んでる」は「選んでいる」のくだけた形。•「〜ようで」は「〜のように見えて、実は」。•「見捨てる」は助けが必要な相手を放っておくこと。
Trap for English Speakers
ようで here means "it looks as if... but actually" and sets up a contrast. It is not ように ("so that" or "like").
日本語で読む
ここでの「ようで」は「〜のように見えて、実は」と、逆の内容へつなぐ言い方。「〜ように（〜するために）」とは違う。
Example
Example 1Basic Example
部活も塾もやめられず、どちらも中途半端になっている弟に、姉は「どちらも選んでるようでどちらも見捨てている」と静かに言った。
To her little brother, who couldn't give up either his club or cram school and was doing both by halves, his big sister said quietly, "You seem to be choosing both, but you're really abandoning both."
Example 2Applied Example
（バニラとチョコのアイスを両手に持ったまま迷い続け、両方とかしかけている父に、娘が）どちらも選んでるようでどちらも溶かしている
(A daughter, to her dad, who keeps hesitating with a vanilla ice cream in one hand and a chocolate one in the other until both start to melt) "You seem to be choosing both, but you're really melting both."
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