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The bus fares have been raised by 20 percent.
バス代が20%値上げになった。
Can their families say this for them? Some people think this is a good idea.
その人の代わりに家族の人たちがこのことを言えるのでしょうか。これは良い考えだと思う人もいます。
The streetcar is now certainly out of date.
路面電車は今では確かに時代遅れかもしれない。
In living through these uncertain times, it is necessary to be flexible and not be a captive to traditional values.
この不確実な時代を生き抜くには、従来の価値観に囚われない柔軟な発想が必要だ。
They kept guard by turns.
彼らは交代で見張りをした。
She can't be over thirty; she must still be in her twenties.
彼女は30を超えているはずはない。まだ20代に違いない。
The younger generation looks at things differently.
若い世代の人たちは、物事を違った目で見る。
It seems the task will not be accomplished in our generation.
その仕事は一代では成し遂げられないだろう。
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons — because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
He resolved to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime enterprise.
彼は臍を固めて一世一代の大事業に乗り出した。
Every dog has his day.
誰にも得意な時代があるものだ。
He went in place of me.
彼が私の代わりに行った。
The hijacker demanded a ransom of two million dollars.
乗っ取り犯人は200万ドルの身の代金を要求した。
I looked for someone to take her place.
私は誰か彼女の代わりをする人を捜した。
Instead of giving the money, that is the normal coin of the realm, which is the phrase that everyone used then, they would give them a token, and this token might be metal, might be wood, might be cardboard.
“The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie is a real masterpiece of modern literature.
サルマン・ラシュディの『悪魔の詩』は、近代文学の傑作の一つと見なされている。
There was a time when kings and queens reigned over the world.
王や女王が世界に君臨した時代があった。
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.