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Don't speak ill of him in public.
人前で彼の悪口を言うな。
I couldn't make her out at all.
彼女と言う人がぜんぜん分からなかった。
The name Edwin doesn't ring a bell.
エドウィンと言う名前を聞いてもピンとこない。
What you say does not make any sense to me.
あなたの言うことは私には全く理解できない。
Tom didn't have the courage to tell Mary the truth.
トムさんはメアリーさんに本当のことを言う勇気がなかったです。
She has an acid tongue.
彼女は辛らつなことを言う。
To tell the truth, he is still under sixty.
実を言うと、彼はまだ60歳になっていません。
There is no possibility that what he says may have any truth in it.
彼の言うことには真実があるだろうという可能性はない。
There is no one that knows him who speaks ill of him.
彼をしっている人で彼の悪口を言う人はいない。
It is silly of you to trust them.
彼らの言う事を信じるなんて君はばかだ。
Strictly speaking, the tomato is a fruit.
厳密に言うと、トマトは果物です。
Don't pay any attention to the boss.
いいから社長の言うことなどほっとけよ。
From an ethical point of view, the great principle of technology is "responsibility to the present" but the new way of thinking, "responsibility to the future" has emerged.
It is the place where there is no person in question, and you shouldn't say abuse.
当人がいないところで悪口を言うべきではない。
There is nothing more shameful than to say what one cannot say for certain.
はっきりと言うことが出来ないことを言うことほど恥ずかしいことはない。
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
人生における大きな喜びは、あなたはできないと人が言うことをすることである。
Women are said to be weak at figures.
女性は計算に弱いと言う。
Such men as praise you to your face are apt to speak ill of you behind your back.
面と向かって誉めるような人は、とかく陰で悪口を言うものだ。
You ought not to say such a thing.
そんなこと言うべきではない。
We listened to her for some time.
私たちはしばらく彼女の言うことを聴いた。
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.