The best thing in the world for a man is to choose a good wife, the worst being to mistakenly choose an ill-suited one.
この世で男にとって最良のことは良妻を選ぶことであり、最悪のことは選び損なって悪妻を持つことである。
This problem is only of secondary importance.
この問題は副次的な重要性を持つに過ぎない。
Every person in this community is like a cell in the immune system of a healthy human body.
この地域社会に住む一人一人は、健康な人間が持つ免疫機構の細胞のようなもだ。
It is said that the secret of long life is to have something to live for.
長生きの秘訣は、生き甲斐を持つ事だそうだ。
The police are responsible for the maintenance of law and order.
警察は法と秩序の維持に対して責任を持つ。
Disposable income is what counts for the level of personal consumption.
個人消費の水準にとって大きな意味を持つのは可処分所得である。
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
費用を受け持つ者に決定権がある。
Why does the US government let people have guns?
なぜアメリカ政府は国民が銃を持つことを許しているのですか。
Since you are no longer a child, you should be responsible for what you do.
もう子供ではないのだから、君は自分の行動に責任を持つべきだ。
It is fashionable to have leather chairs.
皮製の椅子を持つのが流行です。
The atmosphere forms a major part of the environment to which life responds.
大気は生物が反応する環境の主要な部分を構成しており、大きいな天然資源の持つ特徴を高度に備えている。
While at first he got famous from an independent film that he made, he then went from the director of a musical TV series to a full-fledged movie director. Such was his career.
With an American father and a French mother, she is bilingual.
アメリカ人の父親とフランス人の母親を持つので、彼女は2カ国語を話せる。
As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.
Cats show emotional habits parallel to those of their owners.
猫は飼い主が持つ感情的な癖と同じような癖を示す。
The Japanese have a lot in common with the Chinese.
日本人は中国人と多くの共通点を持つ。
The more you have, the more you want.
たくさん持てば持つほど、それだけいっそう多く欲しくなる。
This refill lasts half a year.
この替え芯は半年持つ。
You should have enough sense not to drink, at least during your illness.
せめて病気のときぐらいはお酒をのまないぐらいの分別を持つべきだ。
You ought to answer for what you have done.
自分のしたことに責任を持つべきです。
The king of this country isn't a person, but a divine beast with three pairs of wings said to be in far away in the sky.
この国の王は人ではなく、はるか天空に居られるという三対の翼を持つ神獣なんだ。
By the way, the pastry known as "Shu Cream" in Japan is not known under this name neither in England nor in France. If you ask for a "Shu Cream" in England, you will end up comically receiving shoe shine.