The English sovereign is generally said to reign but not rule.
英国の君主は君臨するが統治しないと一般に言われる。
The stockholders are making money hand over fist.
株主たちはもうけまくっています。
He has a kind heart.
彼は優しい心の持ち主だ。
He affirmed himself to be innocent.
彼は自分は無実だと主張した。
She attended on her sick husband.
彼女は病気の主人に付き添った。
"George?" said the housewife. "Who's George?"
「ジョージ？」主婦は言った。「ジョージって・・・。誰？」
The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.
楽観主義者は鏡をのぞきこんでますます楽天的に、悲観論者はますます悲観的になる。
He will play the leading role for the first time in the next school festival.
次の文化祭で初めて主役を演じることになっています。
He is master of this house.
彼はこの家の主人です。
The landlord told me a cock and bull story about why we didn't have heat for three days.
家主は、この３日間暖房がきかなかった理由をあれこれ並べ立てたが、どうせ見え透いたウソだった。
In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.
If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.
家主に家賃を払えば、食物を買う金がなくなる。進退きわまったというところだ。
His daily behavior is not consistent with his principles.
彼の日々の振る舞いは彼の主義主張と合致していない。
Japan is an island country, and it consists of four main islands.
日本は島国で、４つの主な島から成り立っている。
The worried housewife heard the telephone ring and quickly picked up the receiver.
あれこれ苛々している主婦は、電話が鳴るとすぐさま受話器を取った。
U.S.S.R. stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
ＵＳＳＲはソビエト社会主義共和国連邦を表しています。
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values that we all share. And whi
The question of worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine is left to the independent judgement of Cabinet ministers.
靖国神社参拝に関しては閣僚の自主的な判断に任せられている。
Job security became a major worry.
職業の安定が主要な関心事となった。
His main interest is in history.
彼の主な興味は史学にある。
You must live up to your principles.
君は君の主義に基づいて行動すべきだ。
We insisted on its importance.
私たちはその重要性を主張した。
We chaired the meeting democratically.
我々は民主的にその会議を運営した。
You must not lose sight of your main object.
主題を見失ってはいけない。
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
