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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。
He blew soap bubbles.
彼はシャボン玉をとばした。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
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 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。
The police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.
警察が追っていたのは替え玉で、その間に真犯人を逃してしまった。
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 is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
The children were rolling a big snowball.
子供たちが大きな雪の玉を転がしていた。
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。
He dashed out like a bullet.
彼は鉄砲玉のように飛び出した。
The boss bawled me out.
主人に大目玉を食った。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
Fred has very little patience, and it doesn't take much to make him fly off the handle.
フレッドには忍耐心というものがまるでないから、彼のカンシャク玉を破裂させるのはわけもない。
His naked back and arms were beaded with sweat.
彼は裸の背中と腕に玉のような汗をかいていた。
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.
