The other day I attended a class reunion of my elementary school.
先日小学校のクラス会に出席した。
The retail price index is a barometer of economic activity.
小売物価指数は経済活動のバロメーターです。
I'd like to pay by check.
小切手で支払いたいのですが。
Frankly speaking, his new novel is not very interesting.
率直に言って、彼の新しい小説はあまりおもしろくない。
The novelist is popular among our generation.
その小説家は私達の世代でかなり人気がある。
We refer to this city as Little Kyoto.
我々はこの町を小京都と呼ぶ。
This shirt is too small for me to wear.
このシャツは小さすぎて着られない。
Please cash this check.
この小切手を現金に換えてください。
The package will arrive in London on August 17.
小包は8月17日にロンドンに到着の予定です。
I don't have time to be bothered by such small things.
私はそんな小さなことにわずらわされるヒマはない。
When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.
All the other little rabbits came out to see how happy they both were, and they danced in a wedding circle around the little black rabbit and little white rabbit.
This novel is by far more interesting than that one.
この小説はあれよりずっと面白い。
This novel is too difficult for me to read.
この小説は難しすぎて、私には読むことができない。
He is absorbed in reading detective novels.
彼は探偵小説を読むのに夢中になっている。
I'd like to be paid the balance in change.
残りを小銭でいただきましょう。
Dad often works late, and Mom complains a lot.
お父さんがよく遅くまで仕事をするので、お母さんが小言をたくさん言う。
I haven't read either of her novels.
彼女の小説は両方とも読んでいない。
The small fork is for your salad, and the large one is for the main course.
小さなフォークはサラダ用、大きなフォークはメインディッシュ用です。
The novel is very exciting.
この小説はとても興奮する。
When I was in elementary school I thought, from the bottom of my heart, that the teachers were great people and I was influenced by the teachers' attitudes and moral lessons, but middle school was just a business like any other.