Today, automobiles have taken the place of horses as the principal means of transportation.
今日主要な輸送手段としては、自動車が馬にとって代っている。
I think these attitudes are behind the times.
その態度は時代遅れだと思う。
She was born in the 1950s.
彼女は1950年代の生まれです。
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
税金は文明社会の代償である。
Bricks never take the place of ferro-concrete here.
ここでは決して、レンガは鉄筋コンクリートの代わりになりません。
He attended the meeting as deputy president.
彼はその会に社長の代理で出席した。
He took part in the meeting in place of his brother.
彼は兄の代理として集会に参加した。
Can you take over driving for a while?
ちょっと運転を代わってくれないか。
He often looks back on his high school days.
彼はよく自分の高校時代を回顧する。
They looked at the photo taken of me when I was a boy and laughed.
彼らは僕の少年時代の写真を見て笑った。
The old proverb still holds good in our modern society.
その古い諺は、我々の近代社会にも未だに当てはまる。
You can see the ancient ruins in the distance.
遠くに古代の遺跡が見えるでしょう。
Akira is using that same dictionary that his father used as a student.
あきらは彼の父が学生時代に使っていたのと同じ辞書を使っている。
They weren't able to pass on that tradition unto the next generation.
彼らはその伝統を次の世代に伝えなくてはならなかった。
I paid for the video in five installments.
ビデオの代金を5回に分けて払った。
Japan's prime ministers change rapidly so I can't really remember each of their names.
日本の首相はくるくる変わるので、歴代の首相の名前がなかなか思い出せない。
Read as many books as you can while you are a student.
学生時代に出来るだけ多くの本を読むようにしなさい。
My friend from university gave me a Kindle because he said he wasn't using it anymore. It's the DX model with a large screen. It's not easy to use, but the screen is indeed quite nice. It hadn't bothered me until now, but it's become hard for me to read s
Oh, sure, I studied English in my school days. But it wasn't until two or three years ago that I really started taking it seriously.
もちろん学生時代に英語は勉強したけど、本格的に始めたのはここ2、3年くらい前です。
Mary went over to the United States in her late teens.
メアリーは10代後半にアメリカ合衆国に渡った。
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
If you watch this TV drama, you will understand the lives of ordinary people in the Edo Age very well.
このテレビドラマを見れば江戸時代の庶民の暮らしぶりがよくわかります。
My family came to live in Tokyo in my great-grandfather's time.
曾祖父の代から東京に住んでいます。
Modern poetry is often most obscure.
現代詩はしばしばきわめて難解だ。
By then Tony was in his middle sixties and still able to work hard, but he had a brand-new truck now, a new mower, a lot of other equipment and three people helping him.