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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 police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.
警察が追っていたのは替え玉で、その間に真犯人を逃してしまった。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
"Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again?" "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."
「委員長、後は何を運ぶんだっけ？」「得点板と大玉もう一個、綱引きの綱」
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。
His naked back and arms were beaded with sweat.
彼は裸の背中と腕に玉のような汗をかいていた。
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.
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。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
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。
It would only take 100 or 500 yen coins, so I search for change but don't find any.
１００円玉か５００円玉しか使えないので私は小銭を探したが見当たらない。
He dashed out like a bullet.
彼は鉄砲玉のように飛び出した。
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは５セント玉です。
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
I gave her some candy.
私は彼女にアメ玉を出してあげた。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋！鍵屋！
The 5 yen coin is made from brass and the 10 yen coin is made from bronze.
5円玉は黄銅、10円玉は青銅でできている。
I come from Saitama.
私は埼玉の出身です。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
My brother was the apple of my father's eye.
父は私の弟を掌中の玉のようにかわいがった。
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。
I want to eat a fried egg and croissant.
目玉焼きとクロワッサンが食べたいです。
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。
This soup tastes of onions.
このスープは玉ねぎの味がする。
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。
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。
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？
The children are blowing bubbles.
子供たちがシャボン玉を吹いている。
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 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。
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.
ガリレオは二つの鉄の玉を塔のてっぺんから落とした。
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
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.
