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Please listen to me.
私の言う事を聞いて下さい。
Don't complain. You have to go.
文句を言うな。お前は行かなければならない。
"Don't say such rubbish!" said the farmer.
「馬鹿なことを言うんじゃない」農夫は言った。
To speak frankly, I think he is a good boss.
率直に言うと、彼は良い上司だと思う。
"Animals in the wild are not robots," she says.
「野生の動物はロボットではありません」と彼女は言う。
Please forget about the orienteering that you did at that outdoors school. Well, actually, you don't have to forget it, but the orienteering that we're doing here is completely different.
I have nothing to say with regard to that problem.
その問題について私は何も言う事がない。
I wouldn't go so far as to say your theory is completely wrong.
あなたの理論は完全に間違っている、とまで言うつもりはありません。
Aren't you pushing it too far?
君の言うことは極端じゃないか。
The anthropologist says odd customs do persist in the region.
その地域には風変わりな風習が今もなお続いている、とその人類学者は言う。
Don't say such a thing behind her back.
彼女のいないところで、そんなことを言うのはやめなさい。
To tell the truth, I have no money with me.
本当のことを言うと、全然お金を持ち合わせていません。
That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.
Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. (I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!)
The bigger words he used, the harder it was to find anything inside of them.
彼が大きな事を言えば言うほど、その言葉の中を見出すのはいっそう困難だった。
The proverb says that what is done cannot be undone.
諺に、覆水盆に返らずと言う。
Farmers always complain about the weather.
農民は常に天気について不満を言う。
Don't get so irritated. Rushing things will cost you more time in the end.
そういらいらするなよ。急がば回れって言うだろ。
We should obey our parents.
親の言うことには従うべきです。
"What anthropoid would your girlfriend be most like?" "What a question... Well, um... An orangutan, I guess."
「お前の彼女、類人猿で言うと何に似てる？」「何ちゅう質問だ・・・。うーん・・・オランウータンかな」
I'm actually a university teacher.
正確に言うと私は大学講師です。
We can't trust what she says.
彼女の言うことは信用できない。
Can you state the facts to his face?
あなたは彼に面と向かって事実を言うことが出来ますか。
It goes without saying that honesty is the best policy.
正直は最良の策である事は言うまでもない。
You get drunk on just one centimeter? And Kensuke was such a heavy drinker.
たった一センチで酔っ払いますか！健介は酒豪だったと言うのに。
I can not make out at all what you say.
君の言うことは全く分からない。
No one believed me at first.
最初は誰も私の言うことを信じなかった。
Nobody believes what I say.
僕の言う事は誰も信じてくれない。
It goes without saying that health is above wealth.
健康が富にまさることは言うまでもないことだ。
He says what he has to say unreservedly to his seniors.
彼は年上の人でもどんどんいいたいことを言う。
Strictly speaking, this sentence is grammatically incorrect.
厳密に言うと、この文は文法的に正しくない。
She listens to him.
彼女は彼の言うことを聞く。
They will say your car is very lovely.
彼らは貴方の車がすごくかわいいと言うだろう。
That being the case, he had little to say.
そんなわけで、彼はほとんど言うことがなかった。
You should not speak ill of others.
他の人の悪口を言うべきではありません。
To those who seek peace and security. We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our w
That's the true genius of America; that America can change. Our Union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
