This is a useful book and, what is more, it is not expensive.
これは役に立つ本だし、その上、値段も高くない。
The yen appreciated 10 percent against the dollar.
円はドルに対して１０％上昇した。
She speaks English very well.
彼女は英語をとても上手に話します。
The sum came to over 20,000 yen.
額は２万円以上に達した。
My sister is a good typist.
姉はタイプが上手です。
His debts amount to over $1000.
彼の借金の合計は１０００ドル以上になる。
The sky cleared up soon after the storm.
嵐の後すぐに空は晴れ上がった。
The balloon went up in the sky.
風船が空に上がっていった。
Mr Sato ran a supermarket in his hometown before he came to Tokyo.
佐藤氏は上京する前は生まれ故郷でスーパーを経営していた。
He is in with the boss.
彼は上司とうまくいっている。
I met them during my descent from the peak.
私は頂上から下山する途中彼らに会った。
I think she is a good dancer.
私は彼女は踊りが上手だと思います。
It'll be a waste of time if we wait for them any longer.
これ以上彼らを待っても時間の無駄だよ。
I give up.
お手上げだ。
They advanced the wedding date.
彼らは結婚式の日取りを繰り上げた。
I heard a strange sound coming from the room above.
上の部屋から変な物音が聞こえてきた。
To my surprise, he had a beautiful voice.
驚いたことに、彼は歌が上手かった。
If people who smoke are deprived of their cigarettes, they get nervous and irritable.
喫煙者はたばこを取り上げられると、神経質で怒りっぽくなる。
There's not even one orange on the table.
テーブルの上にはオレンジは一つもありません。
He is buttering up to his boss.
あいつ、上司に胡麻を擂ってやがる。
What is on the desk?
机の上に何がありますか。
After a short visit, he suddenly stood up and said he was leaving.
訪ねてきてしばらくしてから、彼は突然立ち上がって別れを告げた。
The moss is a delicate green fur on fallen logs and rocks, I say to myself.
苔は、倒れた丸太や岩の上の繊細な緑の柔毛だと私は心の中で思う。
I can't tie a very good knot.
私は結び目をあまり上手にはつくらない。
The painting he'd painted wasn't very good so nobody praised it.
彼の描いた絵はあまり上手ではないので誰も誉めなかった。
She laid herself on the grass.
彼女は草の上に横になった。
I didn't know that dogs swim well.
犬は泳ぎが上手だなんて知りませんでした。
Jack is three years senior to me.
ジャックは私より3つ年上です。
It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.
He can play tennis better than any other boy in his class.
彼はクラスのどの少年よりも上手にテニスをすることができる。
The church stands on a hill.
その教会は丘の上に立っている。
He is not well-liked by his boss.
彼は上司の受けが悪い。
He had to work as hard as he could to finish it in time.
彼はそれを期限内に仕上げるのが精いっぱいだった。
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge hars
