Vashti

命を取られる側から取る側になる為

I'm making it "as soon as a life is taken, in order to take [lives]"? How wrong am I?

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It's the repeating theme that plays during the Doctor's cremation. I'm going through the series 6 soundtrack but I can't find it.

田中さんて何でそんなに偉そうなんですか

Most of the sentence seems like "why are you so cool~?", but I don't understand what the Tanaka-san-te is doing there at the start. It doesn't seem like a quote particle (or a typo of de).

Please don't use Google Translate, it's a waste of everyone's time.

My best guess is "It's like this!". The context seems to be that the speaker has no explanation for something (「これはこう！」という解釈を私が押し付けるのではなく), but I might be wrong about that too.

The impression I get is of the speaker being pressed for an explanation of something, waving their arms and yelling "NO IT JUST IS THIS WAY OKAY"?

Remember, kids: Google Translate is a major cause of third-world debt. Don't use it.

According to my grammar text, -na acts as "do <sentence>" if it follows a verb stem, and as "don't do <sentence>" if it follows a dictionary form verb. So far, so good.

But then there's this sentence:

僕の一番イイ顔を見るな

It seems to translate cleanly as "don't picture your favourite face of mine", given those rules for -na. But this doesn't make sense in context. "Picture your favourite face..." would work a lot better.

So what have I missed? Have I missed anything?

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Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with this sentence:

その時と僕を天秤にかけ過去を取ったのか溺れるのは感情だけにしろよう

I get "It's no wonder you felt like you were drowning back then. Weighing me up took your past."

"Took your past" wat? It doesn't seem like a common idiom. My guess would be "forced you to confront your past" or something like that, but can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks.

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