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The checked player must find a way for the king to escape and block the check.
王手をかけられたほうは、玉を逃げるなどの方法で王手を防がねばなりません。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
Tears came into my eyes when I was chopping onions.
玉ねぎを切っていたら涙が出てきた。
This soup tastes of onions.
このスープは玉ねぎの味がする。
Rose was blowing bubbles.
ローズはしゃぼん玉を吹いていた。
He works fast and is very articulate but his insincerity is his biggest defect.
手八丁口八丁の彼だけど、誠がないのが玉に疵だね。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
I want to eat a fried egg and croissant.
目玉焼きとクロワッサンが食べたいです。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
I come from Saitama.
私は埼玉の出身です。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out.
目玉をくり抜かれて王座についた王。
The employees treat everything the company president says as a golden rule.
社員は皆社長の言を金科玉条としている。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
ボスには玉石混交のグループとは言われたけれど、俺は玉かな、それとも石なのかな。
That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.
こいつがそんな玉じゃないことなんてとうの昔に解っていたからさ。
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.
ガリレオは二つの鉄の玉を塔のてっぺんから落とした。
My brother was the apple of my father's eye.
父は私の弟を掌中の玉のようにかわいがった。
It would only take 100 or 500 yen coins, so I search for change but don't find any.
１００円玉か５００円玉しか使えないので私は小銭を探したが見当たらない。
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble.
私たちの恋は、しゃぼん玉のようにはかなかった。
Tom and Mary are playing in the park making soap bubbles.
トムとメアリーは公園でシャボン玉を飛ばして遊んでいる。
The coat she wanted was eye-poppingly expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
一円玉を水に浮かせ、そこに磁石をゆっくり近づけると、一円玉は磁石に近づく。
Why do the five yen coin and the fifty yen coin have holes in the center?
どうして五円玉と五十円玉の真ん中に穴があいているの？
He leads you by the nose if you let him.
彼は人を手玉に取ったような扱い方をする。
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
