Make the best of one's lot with fatal resignation.
腐れ縁と思ってあきらめる。
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
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。
The end of money is the end of love.
金の切れ目が縁の切れ目。
Relationships built on money will end when the money runs out.
金の切れ目が縁の切れ目。
Marriages are made in heaven.
縁は異なもの。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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。
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。
Don't say such a thing.
縁起の悪いことを言いなさんな。
He is involved in the case a little.
彼はその事件とまったく無縁ではない。
Seven is a lucky number.
７は縁起のいい番号だ。
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
