The beginning of the trouble was his careless remark.
事の発端は彼の不注意な発言だった。
This dictionary has a preface, not a foreword.
この辞書には序文はあるが端書きがない。
It was love at first sight when you met her?
君は彼女に会った途端に恋に落ちたのかい?
The moment she'd finished, she lay down for a nap.
彼女は終わった途端に仮眠するために横になった。
I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.
Each part of a book starts with references to its author's life: a passage from a read book, a question directed to a stranger on a roadside, something shouted by a girlfriend.
I wrote down his phone number on a scrap of paper.
私は紙の端切れに彼の電話番号を書き留めた。
A police car has stopped on the side of the road.
道端にパトカーがとまってます。
Who's the person sitting at the other end of the table?
テーブルの向こうの端に座っているのは誰ですか。
Jack of all trades, and master of none.
何でも屋は何でも中途半端。
I had no sooner left the shop than I met my teacher.
店を出た途端に先生に会った。
The town is located in the extreme north of Japan.
その町は日本の最北端に位置する。
Who is the man sitting at the other end of the table?
テーブルの向こうの端に座っているのは誰ですか。
His death was partly my fault.
彼が亡くなった責任の一端は私に有ります。
A jack of all trades is a master of none.
何でも屋は何でも中途半端。
Don't leave things half done.
物事は中途半端にするなかれ。
The computer terminals were lined up in one long row.
コンピューター端末はずっと一列に並んでいた。
That popular television series is going to spin off two new shows in the fall.
その人気テレビシリーズが発端となって、秋には二つのショー番組が誕生することになっている。
While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.
The moment the teacher left the classroom, it became quite noisy.
先生が教室から離れた途端、ガヤガヤと騒がしくなった。
Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
木曜島はオーストラリア最北端ヨーク岬とニューギニア島の間のトレス海峡に位置する。
Past the west coasts of Europe and Africa to the tip of southern Africa.
ヨーロッパとアフリカの西海岸をとおりすぎ、アフリカ南部の先端までとびます。
Because of yesterday's heavy snow, the ground is very slippery. As soon as I stepped outside, I slipped and fell on my bottom.
昨日の大雪のせいで地面はツルツル、私は外に出た途端にすってんころりと尻もちをついた。
Don't leave your work half finished.
仕事を中途半端で辞めてはいけない。
On entering a dark tunnel, we could see nothing.
暗いトンネルに入った途端、私たちは何も見えなかった。
The English people in general, are extremely fond of their pets.
一般的にイギリス人は飼っているペットを極端にかわいがっている。
The bedroom curtains have faded at the edges.
寝室のカーテンは端が色あせてきた。
If the metal plate terminal of the game cassette is dirty it may be difficult for the game to start when the cassette is inserted into the game console.
I had hardly got into the bath when the phone rang.
私が風呂に入った途端に電話がなった。
Obviously there are many variations between these two extremes.
むろん、この両極端の間に多くのバリエーションがある。
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