うんざり


JAPANESE NATURALLY/ Mizue Sasaki

      うんざり

(病院の待合室で)

木村:なかなか名前を呼ばれませんね。
佐藤:もう待つことにうんざりしましたよ。

Unzari

(Byooin no machiai-shitsu de)
Kimura: Nakanaka namae wo yobaremasen ne.
Satoo: Moo matsu koto ni unzari shimashita yo.

(In a hospital waiting room)
Kimura: Ifs taking a long time for them to call our names.
Sato: Fm getting tired of waiting.

Unzari suru means to become sick of, fed up with, or disgusted with something.
One day, for no apparent reason, I suddenly started to see stars before my eyes. Although it only lasted a few minutes, I was afraid there might be something wrong with my eyes, and so I stopped by at a well-known optician in Ochanomizu in Tokyo. It was incredibly crowded: I had no idea that there were so many people who suffered from problems with their eyes.
Namae wo yobareru made ni, unzari suru hodo matasareta (I was kept waiting so long until they called my name I got tired of waiting.) There were about 50 people in the waiting room.
Minna machi-kutabirete, unzari shita kao wo shite iru (Everyone had waited so long, they all looked totally fed up). And when I was finally called, Kenda ga amari ooi no ni unzari shita (There were so many kinds of tests that I got fed up).
After a basic vision test, including one to examine my eye's retina, which really worried me. As it turns out, fortunately, I don't seem to have anything wrong yet, but I'm still concerned about what might happen in the future.
Let's turn to a different example. Every year I spend the summer vacation in England. I often have lunch in a pub, and although I go to a different place every day, Donna ryori ni mojuraido poteto ga tsuite kuru no ni wa unzari shita (I get fed up with the way they serve chips with everything).
And the way they pile them onto the plate so that they're almost falling off the edge, Unzari suru hodo no ryoo da (There's so much you get sick of it). I'm sure the best answer is to go out shopping and make your own lunch, but when you're staying at a hotel that isn't so easy.
The good thing about England though, is that it's cool in the summer. Nikon no natsu wa unzari suru hodo mushi atsui (The summer in Japan is so hot and humid it gets on your nerves), so I guess I'll be going back to England again this year.

The writer is a professor at Yokohama National University.

June 11, 1995