The adventures I read about are absent from my life.
私の読んだ冒険談は実生活とは縁遠い。
In the garden, you know. I'd like to put out benches and increase the customer seating. Like this ...
このお庭の方にね。縁台を出して客席を増やしたいんです。こんな感じに。
Poverty seemed to have nothing to do with them in those days.
当時、貧乏は彼らにとっては無縁なものと思われた。
He is an unsung hero.
彼は縁の下の力持ちだ。
A boy is taking his sweet time pushing the cart toward the curb.
男の子が縁石の方へカートをゆっくり押しやっている。
Don't say such a thing.
縁起の悪いことを言いなさんな。
He framed the picture he had bought on the street.
彼は街頭で買った絵を額縁に入れた。
A diametrically opposed kinship pattern is to be observed among certain South Sea Island communities.
南諸島のコミュニティの中にはまったくの正反対の血縁関係のパターンが観察されるであろう。
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
４は日本語では縁起の悪い数字だ。
The path is bordered with hedges.
その道縁には垣根がある。
This metal is free of rust.
この金属は錆とは無縁です。
Tom pushed Mary off the edge of the cliff.
トムは崖の縁からメアリーを突き落とした。
Seven is a lucky number.
７は縁起のいい番号だ。
The girl had grown up without any money and when she married she became a spendthrift.
あの女の子はお金に縁がなく育ったが、結婚してからは浪費家になった。
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.
I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless
Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.
戸籍上の縁は切れても、昔日の絆はそのままだ。
I thought that if we lined up benches in the garden as well, we could achieve quite a seating capacity.
お庭の方にも縁台を並べれば、かなり座席数を確保できそうだなーと思いました。
We sprinkle salt to ward off bad luck.
縁起に塩をまいて清める。
Break off with such a man as that.
ああいう男とは縁を切れ。
Don't put the glass near the edge of the table.
テーブルの縁にグラスを置かないで下さい。
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like
To my campaign manager, David Plouffe! The unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best, the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.
