Meaning of 性懲りも無く頭を過ぎった


I started translating a manga to get a better real world grasp of the
language. I also have the english version to help me cross check my
translations. But the following sentence is giving me a hard time and doesn't
match the english version at all (from what I can tell):

> 性懲りも無く頭を過ぎった

[![japanese sentence
"性懲りも無く頭を過ぎった"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I8TRA.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I8TRA.png)

Edit: ~~The same "box" from the english version (usually it matches
perfectly):

> I wondered if this person might want to be my friend. ~~

_I found this text at another location. (Web Novel vs Light Novel but 99%
matching) This could be the corresponding translation:`I often wished I could
find someone like that.`_

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What I gathered so far with the help of Google translate and weblio.jp:

性懲り -> discipline

無く -> without

頭 -> head

過ぎる / 過ぎった -> pass / passed

Full Google translate is `I passed my head without discipline` which doesn't
make any sense here.

Context: Person A meets Person B but is afraid of people and wants to chase
her away at first. But what she really thinks is that she wants to make
friends and talk to people.

From the manga `ぼっち怪物と盲目少女`

What is the meaning of this sentence?




First of all, please forget the "matching" translations you found. You're
somehow seeing something totally irrelevant.

性懲り on its own means something like "learning (by a bad experience)" or
"feeling like not repeating something any more". But this word is used almost
exclusively in the idiom 性懲りもなく ("without 性懲り"), which you should learn as a
set phrase.

性懲りもなく means something negative like "as if [one] had forgotten the lesson
(learned by a bad experience)", "like someone who does not learn by mistakes",
"doggedly", "yet again", etc.

頭を過ぎる【よぎる】 is another idiom meaning "to cross one's mind" or "to come to
mind".

Thus 性懲りも無く頭を過ぎった means "[Some idea] persistently crossed my mind" or "It came
to my mind yet again". The nuance is that he already learned it's a bad idea,
but somehow cannot get rid of it.




First of all, please forget the "matching" translations you found. You're
somehow seeing something totally irrelevant.

性懲り on its own means something like "learning (by a bad experience)" or
"feeling like not repeating something any more". But this word is used almost
exclusively in the idiom 性懲りもなく ("without 性懲り"), which you should learn as a
set phrase.

性懲りもなく means something negative like "as if [one] had forgotten the lesson
(learned by a bad experience)", "like someone who does not learn by mistakes",
"doggedly", "yet again", etc.

頭を過ぎる【よぎる】 is another idiom meaning "to cross one's mind" or "to come to
mind".

Thus 性懲りも無く頭を過ぎった means "[Some idea] persistently crossed my mind" or "It came
to my mind yet again". The nuance is that he already learned it's a bad idea,
but somehow cannot get rid of it.

