This year the cherry-blossoms are coming out a little later than usual.
今年は桜の花が例年よりも少し遅れている。
The cherry blossoms will come out earlier than usual.
今年は例年より桜は早いだろう。
For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
例えば、たばこをぷかぷか吸う先生が、たばこを吸う生徒に注意してもその注意は矛盾しているだろう。
This is an example of the survival of the fittest, as it is called.
これはいわゆる適者生存の例である。
When I looked at the explanatory notes under the posts list I realized what was causing it.
投稿一覧の下の凡例を見て原因が分かりました。
I wonder why the names Tom and Mary are often used in sentences that are in the Tatoeba Corpus.
タトエバの例文にはどうしてトムとメアリーばっかり出てくるんだろう。
Every rule has its exceptions.
どの規則にも例外がある。
He illustrated his theory with diagrams.
彼は図を使って自説を例証した。
For example, you don't need a personal seal to collect a parcel.
例えば、宅配便の受け取りには、判子は必要有りません。
What does the word "Tatoeba" mean?
「例えば」とはどういう意味ですか？
In this country there are only few examples that ideology and religion are helpful in character building for people.
この国ではイデオロギーや宗教が人としての人格形成に役立つ例があまりに少ない。
As is often the case with her, she was late for the meeting this afternoon.
例によって、彼女は午後の会議に遅れて来た。
Let's master example sentences and the make-up of text by dictation.
例文や、文章の仕組みをディクテーションでマスターしましょう。
The unprecedented drought did severe damage to the wheat harvest.
前例のない干ばつが小麦の収穫に甚大な被害をもたらした。
For instance, gauges, such as thermometers and barometers, are instruments.
例えば、温度計や気圧計などの計器は器具です。
I hear that you are having an unusually cold winter.
例年になく寒い冬だそうですね。
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
Tom copies dirty example sentences he finds in his dictionary into his notebook and memorizes them.
トムは辞書で見つけた卑猥な例文をノートに写して暗記している。
What would you do if you had ten thousand dollars?
例えば君が１万ドル持っていればどうするだろうか。
Fundamentally, you're not practicing anything by translating, so even if you say that you can't do it, once you've set your sights on a similar sentence you've seen before that is more natural yet does not quite convey the original sentence's nuances, tra
As was my habit, I was walking on the beach after the rain.
私は、例によって、一人で、雨上りの砂浜を歩いていました。
For instance, in my father's business the timing of sales and purchases was very important, and he would sometimes write or say to his colleagues "There is a tide," without going into detail.
