We've been through a rough patch, but I hope it will have made us stronger.
いろいろトラブルもあったけど、雨降って地固まるってことになってほしいね。
Japan claims the Northern Territories for its own.
日本は北方領土を日本固有のものにしたがっている。
He persisted in the experiment until he was successful.
彼は成功するまでその実験に固執した。
And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.
それで雪を踏み固めてブロックを作り、それを積むような方法が適しているんですね。
When water freezes and becomes solid, we call it ice.
水が凍って固体になると氷と呼ばれる。
The heat of the sun hardens clay.
太陽の熱は粘土を固くする。
You had better fix the bookcase to the wall.
書棚は壁に固定したほうがいい。
She's married and settled down now.
彼女は今では結婚して身を固めている。
Feathers are peculiar to birds.
羽は鳥に固有のものだ。
A cloud is a mass of vapor.
雲は蒸気の固まりである。
The instinct for survival is inherent in every living thing.
生存本能はあらゆる生物に固有のものである。
Water becomes solid when it freezes.
水は凍ると固体になる。
She is stubborn.
彼女は頑固です。
She tried again to fix the earring into her ear.
彼女は耳にイヤリングを固定しようとした。
He became more obstinate as he grew older.
彼は歳を取るにつれて次第に頑固になった。
Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?
両親が喜んで経済的に援助してくれるのに、なぜ君は自分で学費を払うことに固執するのか。
I really like hard-boiled eggs.
私は固茹で卵が大好きです。
The new boss has whipped the company into shape.
新社長は、会社の体質を堅固なものに作り上げた。
Gelatine has the property of setting as it cools.
ゼラチンは、冷えると固まる性質があります。
You've got a one-track mind.
頭の固いやつだな。
For code type locks that don't need a key there are 'free dial' systems where you can set any number you like and fixed types where the number is set in advance.
I have amongst my relatives, a single one who sincerely lives righteously, has strict principles and pursues an ideal, but all my other relatives speak ill and make fun of him.
While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.
They seem determined to press forward with their program of reform.
彼らは改革案を断固として推し進めるつもりのようだ。
Language is a specifically human characteristic.
言語は人間固有の性質である。
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.