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Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋!鍵屋!
This soup tastes of onions.
このスープは玉ねぎの味がする。
Her skirt is yellow with polka dots.
彼女のスカートは黄色で水玉模様がついている。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
What's more she went and ordered a top up of noodles twice.
しかもこの女、2回も替玉しやがった。
I gave her some candy.
私は彼女にアメ玉を出してあげた。
Why do the five yen coin and the fifty yen coin have holes in the center?
どうして五円玉と五十円玉の真ん中に穴があいているの?
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble.
私たちの恋は、しゃぼん玉のようにはかなかった。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
The 5 yen coin is made from brass and the 10 yen coin is made from bronze.
5円玉は黄銅、10円玉は青銅でできている。
The employees treat everything the company president says as a golden rule.
社員は皆社長の言を金科玉条としている。
There were beads of sweat on his forehead.
彼の額には玉のような汗が浮かんでいた。
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
"Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again?" "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."
「委員長、後は何を運ぶんだっけ?」「得点板と大玉もう一個、綱引きの綱」
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎを切った。
He leads you by the nose if you let him.
彼は人を手玉に取ったような扱い方をする。
Tears came into my eyes when I was chopping onions.
玉ねぎを切っていたら涙が出てきた。
The checked player must find a way for the king to escape and block the check.
王手をかけられたほうは、玉を逃げるなどの方法で王手を防がねばなりません。
The children were rolling a big snowball.
子供たちが大きな雪の玉を転がしていた。
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.