"He's a tiger when he's angry" is an example of metaphor.
「怒ると彼はトラになる」というのは隠喩の例である。
He was as gentle a man as ever lived.
彼は今まで例がないほど優しい人だ。
Please show me another example.
別の実例を教えてください。
What does the word "Tatoeba" mean?
「例えば」とはどういう意味ですか？
You don't need to bring up "A Winter Sonata" to show that South Korean culture is having an unexpected boom in Japan.
「冬のソナタ」を例に挙げるまでもなく、いまや時ならぬ韓流ブームである。
In this instance we are provided with an exact account of the conversation between the two poets.
この例においては、その二人の詩人の対話に関する正確な記述がもたらされている。
On his tour of Italy, he visited several cities which are famous for their scenic beauty, for instance, Naples and Florence.
イタリア旅行で彼はいくつか景勝の地として有名な都市、例えば、ナポリやフィレンツェを訪れた。
He illustrated his theory with examples.
彼は例を示して自分の理論を説明した。
Don't trust him, no matter what he says.
例え彼が何を言おうとも信用するな。
Now let's return to the main problem of education.
さて例の教育に関しての本題に戻るとしよう。
Those regulations all apply to everyone without a single exception.
それらの規則はどれも１つの例外もなく全員にあてはまる。
The examples are as follows.
例は次の通りです。
We studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration.
頭韻の例を収集するために、シェークスピア・コンコーダンスを調べた。
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.
I hear that you are having an unusually cold winter.
例年になく寒い冬だそうですね。
What would you do if you had, say, 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。
I can give you several instances.
私は事例をいくつか出せます。
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version
It's been hot this month, but today's an exception.
今月は暑かったが、今日は例外だ。
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
Is that the man whose wife was killed in the car accident?
あの人って奥さんを例の自動車事故でなくした人ですか？
I wonder why it's always Tom and Mary who show up in Tatoeba sentences.
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。
On gift-giving occasions, people generally avoid giving money, but there are exceptions.
贈り物をする場合に、人々は一般にお金を与えることはしないが、例外もある。
On the surface the book consists mostly of a series of case histories.
表面上、本書の大部分は一連の事例の変遷を記録したものである。
A man will succeed to the same extent as he perseveres.
人は忍耐に比例して成功するものだ。
I remember that place.
例の場所のこと、思い出しています。
The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises.
給与が増えるに比例して、所得税率もあがっていく。
Instead use words like "some", "many", "often", and begin statements with openers like, "In my experience, ...", "Excuse me if I'm wrong, but...", "In many instances, ...."
