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You say po-tah-to I say po-tay-to. Rika is just that sort of girl. There's no way to win a battle of words with her.
あー言えば、こーゆー。里香ってばそんなヤツだ。文句の言い合いで勝てるわけない。
She complained to me of his rudeness.
彼の無作法について彼女は私に文句を言った。
Young people tend to complain about everything.
若者は何に関しても文句を言うものだ。
He complained that the soup was too hot.
彼はスープが熱すぎると文句を言った。
How dare he complain?
よくも彼は文句が言えたものだ。
He finds fault with everything I do.
彼は私のしたことにいちいち文句を言う。
When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.
This is a sentence, that has the syllable count, of a good haiku.
この文は俳句の調べ持つ文よ。
After thinking long and hard, I put the plan into practice.
散々考えた挙げ句その計画を実行にうつした。
I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
私はおろかにもその慣用語句を文字通りの意味で解釈してしまった。
She complained that my salary was low.
彼女は私の給料が安いと文句を言った。
Why am I the only one they complain of? They're just making an example out of me and using me as a scapegoat.
なんで俺だけが文句言われるのかな。一罰百戒のつもりでスケープゴートにされたんじゃかなわないよ。
The iris deeply associated with the Boys' Festival does not have a beautiful flower.
この端午の節句と関係の深いしょうぶは、花は美しくありません。
You're always complaining!
あなたはいつも文句ばかり言っている!
My wife is always finding fault with me.
私の妻はいつも私に文句ばかり言っている。
This is a very famous Haiku poem by Basho.
これは芭蕉の非常に有名な俳句です。
No one can find fault with our new plan.
我々の新しい計画には誰も文句を付けられない。
I am going to complain to the manager.
支配人に文句を言ってやる。
She finds fault with everything and everyone.
彼女は何にでも誰にでも文句を付ける。
It's OK to think of 'five minutes' as a noun phrase, right?
「five minutes」って名詞句でいいんですよね?
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"