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A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
There were beads of sweat on his forehead.
彼の額には玉のような汗が浮かんでいた。
The children were rolling a big snowball.
子供たちが大きな雪の玉を転がしていた。
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out.
目玉をくり抜かれて王座についた王。
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
The coat she said she wanted was extremely expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble.
私たちの恋は、しゃぼん玉のようにはかなかった。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
ボスには玉石混交のグループとは言われたけれど、俺は玉かな、それとも石なのかな。
He blew soap bubbles.
彼はシャボン玉をとばした。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
Why do the five yen coin and the fifty yen coin have holes in the center?
どうして五円玉と五十円玉の真ん中に穴があいているの?
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは5セント玉です。
What's more she went and ordered a top up of noodles twice.
しかもこの女、2回も替玉しやがった。
The boss bawled me out.
主人に大目玉を食った。
Lady Otohime gave Urashima Taro a beautiful Tamate-box.
乙姫様は浦島太郎に美しい玉手箱をくれました。
The coat that she said she wanted was very expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
Fred has very little patience, and it doesn't take much to make him fly off the handle.
フレッドには忍耐心というものがまるでないから、彼のカンシャク玉を破裂させるのはわけもない。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
My father is as bald as a billiard ball.
私の父はビリヤードの玉のように頭がつるつるだ。
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
一円玉を水に浮かせ、そこに磁石をゆっくり近づけると、一円玉は磁石に近づく。
The checked player must find a way for the king to escape and block the check.
王手をかけられたほうは、玉を逃げるなどの方法で王手を防がねばなりません。
That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.
こいつがそんな玉じゃないことなんてとうの昔に解っていたからさ。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
Her dress has white spots on a blue background.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。
He dashed out like a bullet.
彼は鉄砲玉のように飛び出した。
He works fast and is very articulate but his insincerity is his biggest defect.
手八丁口八丁の彼だけど、誠がないのが玉に疵だね。
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
Every bullet has its billet.
鉄砲玉に当たるも当たらぬもみな運命だ。
The coat she wanted was eye-poppingly expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
Tom and Mary are playing in the park making soap bubbles.
トムとメアリーは公園でシャボン玉を飛ばして遊んでいる。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.