Hesitant to wear contacts with 抵抗

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Seeing Shun again for the first time in seven years, Sana notices he’s now wearing glasses. She asks him why he doesn’t wear contacts.

紗奈(さな):
(まわ)りはコンタクト(おお)いからどうしてかなーって」
“Most people wear contacts, so I was kind of wondering why.”
()(なに)()れるの抵抗(ていこう)あったとか?」
“Is it because you're hesitant with putting something in your eye?”
Literal: “Did you have resistance to putting something in your eye, or something?”
駿(しゅん):
「それは…」
“Well...”

Key Points

1抵抗(ていこう)がある = to feel resistance or hesitation toward something
  • Here, 抵抗(ていこう)がある means “to feel uncomfortable about doing it” or “to be reluctant about it”, not physical resistance.
2Casual phrasing: ()(なに)()れるの抵抗(ていこう)あった
  • This is a casual spoken shortening of ()(なに)かを ()れるのに 抵抗(ていこう)があった.
  • The omitted , , and are easy to miss, but the meaning is still “you had resistance to putting something in your eye”.
3〜の turns the action into “the act of doing it”
  • ()(なに)()れるの means “putting something in your eye” as an action or experience.
  • That lets the sentence treat the whole action as the thing Shun might feel reluctant about.
4とか softens the question
  • とか makes the guess sound less direct, like “or something?” or “maybe?”.
  • Sana is suggesting a possible reason gently rather than stating it confidently.

Vocabulary

(Something)

(なに)か means something or anything. It can also introduce an uncertain question, as in “Is something wrong?”

(Resistance)

抵抗(ていこう) means resistance or opposition to a physical, social, psychological, or technical force.

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