Midterm exams start next week. Just cramming the night before won't get you ready. There'll be a lot of tough questions. You should start studying today.
来週から中間テストだ。一夜漬けじゃ、太刀打ちできない問題ばかりだぞ。今日から始めろよ。
France can't be matched for good wine.
良質のぶどう酒ではフランスに太刀打ちできる国はない。
Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.
もう少しやさしく意見してあげたらどうなの。一刀両断のもと切り捨てられた彼の立場も考えてよ。
"Practising sword throwing?" "It just slipped out of my hands."
「刀の投擲の練習？」「すっぽ抜けただけです」
Speaking of fall flavors in Japan, what comes to everyone's mind? For me, after all is said and done, it would be pike.
日本の秋の味覚といえば、皆さんは何を思い浮かべますか？ 私は何といっても秋刀魚です。
Play one's trump card.
伝家の宝刀をぬく。
He is very direct about it.
彼はそれについて単刀直入だ。
I asked him point-blank.
僕は単刀直入に尋ねたよ。
Swinging their swords with two hands, the warriors bravely battled their enemies to the end.
闘士は両手で刀を二振り持って最後まで敵と勇敢に戦った。
I asked him point-blank.
僕は彼に単刀直入に尋ねたよ。
That was a 'cutting the Gordian knot' type of solution.
それは快刀乱麻を断つような解答でした。
The police were unable to cope with such violence.
警察はそういう暴力と太刀打ち出来なかった。
Kendo involves dueling between two people who are each equipped with a sword-like stave made of bamboo.
剣道では、竹でできた刀のような棒をそれぞれ身に着けた2人が試合します。
Jodo is a Japanese martial art using short staffs called "Jou" and wooden sword.
杖道は、「杖」と呼ぶ木製の棒、および木刀を用いる日本武道である。
He forged the steel into a sword.
彼は鋼を鍛えて刀を作った。
You don't have to leave me hanging like this. Why don't you just come out and tell it to me straight?
もっと単刀直入に言ってくれないかな。隔靴掻痒の感なきにしもあらずだよ。
His manner of speaking is direct to the point of rudeness.
彼の話し方は無礼といってもよいほどに単刀直入だった。
Today, even though he has not put on his armor, he has not forgotten to carry his sword.
今日は鎧をつけていなくても佩刀するのは忘れていなかった。
A samurai in the Edo Era carried two swords.
江戸時代、武士は刀を２本刺していた。
Iaido, it is a form of swordsmanship that strikes down an attacking opponent with one blow of the sword quickly drawn out of its sheath, whether one is sitting or walking.
