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For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.
If you are going to the library this afternoon, would you please return two books for me whilst you are there?
午後に図書館へ行くのであれば、私の代わりに2冊の本を返却しておいていただけませんか?
My younger sister got married in her teens.
私の妹は10代で結婚した。
My father is in his fifties.
父は50代です。
This will do for a chair.
これはいすの代わりをするでしょう。
She has a boyfriend she's been going out with since high school but feels their relationship has become a matter of habit and is increasingly dissatisfied.
It is impossible to substitute machines for people.
機械を人の代わりにするのは不可能だ。
Do not idle away your youth or you will regret it later.
青春時代を怠けて過ごすな。さもないと後で後悔するぞ。
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
1930年代の恐慌の間、多くの金持ちが株式市場の崩壊で全てを失った。
He draws on his childhood experiences for the material of most of his stories.
彼は自分の書く物語の材料はたいてい子供時代の体験に頼っている。
We live in the atomic age.
私たちは原子力の時代に生きている。
As a poet he flowered in his twenties.
詩人としての彼は20代が花盛りだった。
Which period of history are you studying?
あなたは歴史のどの時代を研究していますか。
The invention of the transistor marked a new era.
トランジスターの発明は新時代を画した。
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.
Relative pronouns perform as 'conjunction + pronoun'.
関係代名詞は「接続詞+代名詞」のはたらきをしています。
He lived in Kyoto in his college days.
彼は大学時代に京都にすんでいた。
I went to the theater to see a modern drama.
私は現代劇を見にその劇場へ行った。
The can will do for an ashtray.
その缶は灰皿の代わりになる。
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.