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My brother was the apple of my father's eye.
父は私の弟を掌中の玉のようにかわいがった。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎを切った。
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。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.
彼の額に玉のような汗が出ていた。
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。
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。
Lady Otohime gave Urashima Taro a beautiful Tamate-box.
乙姫様は浦島太郎に美しい玉手箱をくれました。
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.
ガリレオは二つの鉄の玉を塔のてっぺんから落とした。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋！鍵屋！
The boss bawled me out.
主人に大目玉を食った。
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？
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。
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.
Tom and Mary are playing in the park making soap bubbles.
トムとメアリーは公園でシャボン玉を飛ばして遊んでいる。
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。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
This soup tastes of onions.
このスープは玉ねぎの味がする。
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。
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
一円玉を水に浮かせ、そこに磁石をゆっくり近づけると、一円玉は磁石に近づく。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
The coat she wanted was eye-poppingly expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは５セント玉です。
That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.
こいつがそんな玉じゃないことなんてとうの昔に解っていたからさ。
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.
