Despite being fascinated with English, many Japanese don't even try to study it.
日本人の多くは英語に憧れているのにもかかわらず、英語を勉強しようとしない。
One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.
死に憧れる者は惨めであるが、死を恐れる者はさらに惨めである。
I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.
晴耕雨読の人生にも少々は憧れるけれど、僕にはそんな生き方、３日ももたないだろうな。
What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.
ボクが憧れたのは翔太部長の『力』じゃない。体を張ってでも信念を貫こうとする雄々しい勇気だったはず。
He thought of them yearning for fame.
彼は彼らが名声に憧れていると思った。
When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.
