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“玉”
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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.
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？
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。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
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。
He blew soap bubbles.
彼はシャボン玉をとばした。
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。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
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。
The boss bawled me out.
主人に大目玉を食った。
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。
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。
Fried eggs, sunny-side up, easy please.
軽く目玉焼きにでもしてください。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.
彼の額に玉のような汗が出ていた。
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.
