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She seldom, if ever, goes out after dark.
日がくれてから彼女が外出することは例えあるにしても極めてまれだ。
Could you please give me some more examples of that?
そのことについてもう少し例をあげてくれませんか。
For example, Osaka is the sister city of San Francisco.
例えば、大阪はサンフランシスコの姉妹都市です。
Insofar as possible, our examples will be drawn from English.
できるだけ英語から例をひこう。
As a rule, we don't allow smoking.
通例、喫煙は許可していません。
We have no such example.
そんな先例はない。
Cats usually hate dogs.
猫は通例犬が大嫌いだ。
He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.
彼はその文法書から多くの用例を引用している。
More students than ever before have sat for their bar examinations this year.
今年は例年に無く多くの学生が司法試験を受けた。
You get paid in proportion to the amount of the work you do.
あなたがする仕事の量に比例して給料が払われます。
Whichever you choose, you cannot lose.
例えどちらを選んでも、損はしないよ。
How do I change the language of a sentence?
例文の言語を変えるにはどうすれば良いですか?
As usual, Tom was late.
例によって、トムは遅刻した。
The cherry blossoms will come out earlier than usual.
今年は例年より桜は早いだろう。
There are exceptions to every rule.
例外のないルールはない。
I want to go abroad, for instance, to Italy and Spain.
私は例えばイタリアやスペインなど外国へ行きたい。
The number of muffins that you'll receive will be inversely proportional to the number of times you talk on IRC.
マフィンを受ける数は、IRCでしゃべる回数に反比例して変化する。
Life has often been compared to climbing a mountain.
人生はしばしば登山に例えられてきた。
As was my habit, I was walking on the beach after the rain.
私は、例によつて、一人で、雨上りの砂浜を歩いてゐました。
Every law has its exception.
例外のない規則はありません。
She was as great a scientist as ever lived.
彼女はこれまでに例のないほどの偉大な科学者だった。
To give a definition of word is more difficult than to give an illustration of its usage.
言葉を定義することは、実例を挙げてその使い方を説明するよりも難しい。
The choice of example sentence wasn't wise.
例文の選定がまずかったです。
"He's a tiger when he's angry" is an example of metaphor.
「怒ると彼はトラになる」というのは隠喩の例である。
However, there are instances in history where entire peoples were successfully exterminated.
しかし、歴史上、民族殲滅に成功した例がある。
For example, you don't need a personal seal to collect a parcel.
例えば、宅配便の受け取りには、判子は必要有りません。
For example, what would you do if you had ten thousand dollars?
例えば君が1万ドル持っていればどうするだろうか。
I wonder why the names Tom and Mary are often used in sentences that are in the Tatoeba Corpus.
タトエバの例文にはどうしてトムとメアリーばっかり出てくるんだろう。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
For instance, in my father's business the timing of sales and purchases was very important, and he would sometimes write or say to his colleagues "There is a tide," without going into detail.
The company, although with some exceptions, usually utilizes its resources very well.
例外もあるが、その会社はたいていは資産をとてもうまく利用している。
There's an exception to every rule.
どの規則にも例外がある。
How do I delete a sentence?
例文を削除するにはどうしたら良いですか?
This is an instance of modern British life.
これは英国の現代生活のほんの一例だ。
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