The pears we eat in Japan look almost like apples.
私たちが日本で食べるナシは、まるでリンゴのような形をしています。
Her new hairstyle covers her ears.
彼女の新しい髪形は耳を覆っている。
He fashioned an elegant pot out of clay.
彼は、粘土で優雅な壷を形作った。
The island as seen from above resembles a pear in shape.
上から眺めたときのその島は形が洋ナシに似ている。
Mother bought a beautiful doll for her.
母は、彼女に美しい人形を買ってやった。
These cookies are star-shaped.
これらのクッキーは星の形をしている。
Mary gave me an American doll.
メアリーは私にアメリカの人形をくれた。
The different character typologies are represented schematically in figure one.
各種の性格類型が概略図の形で図1に示されている。
It is hard to define "triangle."
「三角形」を定義するのは難しいです。
Communication takes many forms.
意思伝達は色々な形をとる。
It is even becoming accepted even in exam-English that that called "simple future tense" does not exist.
「未来形」というのは存在しない、ということは受験英語でも一般的になりつつあります。
This sort of structure is called a double negative, but in effect it shows affirmation.
このような形を二重否定といいますが、結果として肯定を表すこととなります。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
After weighing all these considerations, the promoters will present their scheme in the form of a private bill; however, they might find themselves forced to alter the route in order to meet criticisms in Parliament.
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross.
Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
Since the bridge looks like a pair of glasses, they call it Meganebashi.
眼鏡の形をしていることから、その橋を眼鏡橋とよぶ。
Some consider language as a form of knowledge.
言語を知識の形態と考える人もいる。
I couldn't help laughing at his haircut.
彼の髪形を見て思わず笑ってしまった。
I went to the dentist recently and he did a cast of my teeth and took an X-ray, 'just in case.' It sounds like a good business to be in.
この間、歯医者行ったら、念のためとか言われて、歯形とレントゲンをとられた。いい商売してるよ。
She loves the doll like her own sister.
彼女はその人形を実の妹のようにかわいがる。
I have a round bald spot on my head.
頭に円形の脱毛があります。
'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.
「-osity」は語尾が「-ous」の形容詞から作られる抽象名詞の語尾。
Death, in whatever form, is repulsive.
死が、どんな形であれ、おぞましいものです。
The earth is shaped like a sphere.
地球は球のような形をしている。
We have a square table.
私たちは正方形のテーブルを持っています。
The house gave no sign of life.
その家には人の住んでいる形跡はなかった。
There is a doll in the box.
箱の中に人形が入っている。
Don't be afraid to show yourself through speech and take every opportunity to speak to others in English and soon you will feel right at home in informal conversational situations.