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I was absent from work yesterday.
私は昨日仕事を休んだ。
About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment.
Students are impatient for the summer holidays to come.
学生たちは夏休みが来るのが待ち遠しい。
Winter vacation is just around the corner.
冬休みまであとわずかだ。
Let's take a rest in the garden instead of indoors.
家の中ではなく庭でひと休みしましょう。
The summer vacation has come to an end too soon.
夏休みはあっけなく終わってしまった。
What's your day off?
店の休みの日はいつですか。
Did Tom say where he went for his summer vacation?
トムは夏休みにどこに行ったか言ってましたか。
It looks as though we shall have to go without a holiday this year.
私たちは今年は休日なしで済まさなければならないようだ。
We bargained that we should go on a five-day week.
我々は交渉して週休2日制にする協定をした。
What shall we do on your next days off?
今度のお休み何しようか。
I thought I had a day off.
私は休みを取ったと思っていました。
"It's high time you took a vacation," Jim's boss said to him.
「君が休暇をとるころあいだな」とボスはジムに言った。
Many young women in their 20s plan to go abroad during their summer holidays.
20代の若い女性の中には、夏休みに海外旅行にでたいと思う人も多い。
Most shops near the school are closed on Saturdays now.
今では学校の近くのほとんどの店が土曜は休みだ。
My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.
In her leisure time, she enjoys swimming and tennis.
休みの時に彼女は泳いだりテニスをしたりする。
So the reason that Tanaka stayed home today was because his grandmother died? Didn't he say that last month, and the month before that, too? Skipping is one thing, but I'd like him to at least come up with a better excuse than that.