It's ludicrous to continue business operations while selling off bit by bit the land on which your business depends.
事業を継続しながら、事業が依拠している不動産を切り売りしていくことなど非現実的なのだ。
It is difficult to overcome this shortcoming without drastically changing the whole system.
システム全体を抜本的に変えなければ、この欠点を克服することは困難である。
I made a temporary repair to the broken door.
壊れたドアに応急的な修理をした。
It is wrong to aim at fame only.
名声だけを目的にするのは間違っている。
He has a negative attitude to everything.
彼は何事にも否定的な態度である。
He persecuted people for their religion.
彼は人々を宗教的に迫害した。
In Japan, people legally become adults when they turn twenty.
日本では、法的には２０歳で成人になる。
The Aoi Festival has been carried out as a national event since then and has continued to the present day.
葵祭りは国家的行事として行われ、その頃から今日まで続いてきた。
These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood.
In the Diet, often a politician or two leave without permission when a question becomes too personal.
国会の会期中、質問があまりにも個人的になると、無断退出する議員が一人、二人よくいるものだ。
You say that you're afraid of being disliked by other people, but you have some people that you dislike yourself, don't you? Arithmetically speaking, there are an equal number of people who you don't like that don't like you back. I'm not saying that if y
As children are known to emulate the values of adults, it is often pointed out such "education mamas" instill a warped sense of values in their children.
Social relationships are secondary to this business.
社会的な関わり合いは、この仕事には二次的なのです。
Generally speaking, Westerners don't eat fish raw.
一般的に言えば、西欧人は魚を生では食べない。
Generally speaking, Englishmen aren't curious about others.
一般的にいうと、英国人は他人のことに好奇心を持たない。
A building with high ceilings and huge rooms may be less practical than the colorless block of offices that takes its place, but it often fits in well with its surroundings.
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
No rational person, of whatever political persuasion, could possibly object to the program.
理性的な人であれば、政治的信条がどうであれ、その計画に反対することはないだろう。
This sentence states exactly how the writer feels.
この文章は作者の気持ちを的確に表現している。
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a rescue technique quite fundamental in an emergency situation with another person.
人工呼吸は人の緊急事態に対する、ごく基本的な救命方法です。
In my analysis I rely considerably on the types of authoritarian behaviour first analyzed by Kurz.
分析においては、クルツによって最初に分析された権威的行動の類型に負っている部分が大きい。
The inhabitants are proud of their urban culture.
住民達は彼らの都会的な文化に誇りを持っている。
Integrative medicine refers to a many faceted medical approach that emphasises individual differences and aggressively includes the latest scientific techniques based on modern Western medicine as well as various other medical systems like traditional med
Her new novel is really interesting as opposed to her last one.
彼女の新しい小説は前作とは対照的にとても面白い。
The film received favourable criticism.
その映画はとても好意的な批判を受けた。
It's much less usual for a person to be politically aware than to be politically active.
政治的に活発な人より、政治意識にちゃんと目覚めている人のほうがずっと少ない。
The president is a down-to-earth kind of man.
社長は現実的なタイプの人だ。
He is extremely pessimistic and has no aspirations.
彼は非常に悲観的で希望を持っていない。
I agree on an emotional level, but on the pragmatic level I disagree.
心情的には賛成、けれど現実的に反対します。
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
The ship was on the point of arriving at her destination.
船はまさに目的地に到着しようとしていた。
There exist supernatural beings.
超自然的な物が存在する。
She finally managed to get a hold of her old friend.
最終的には、彼女は何とか昔の友達に連絡を取った。
The work of art, I decided, was the final product of human activity, and the final justification for all the misery, the endless toil and the frustrated strivings of humanity.
