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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。
That customer came back to complain again.
例のお客さん、またいちゃもんつけてきたわよ。
In all times and places many examples of poor relations between wives and mothers-in-law can be seen.
古今東西、嫁と姑の仲は上手くいかぬ例が多いと見える。
There is no rule without an exception.
例外のないルールはない。
If I create an example, will you correct it for me?
私が例文を作ったら、訂正していただけますか。
Love begins playing his old tricks every spring.
春ごとに恋は例のいたずらを始める。
As usual, Mike was late for the meeting this afternoon.
例によって、マイクは今日の午後会合に遅刻した。
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.
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。
With every increase of scientific knowledge, man's power for evil is increased in the same proportion as his power for good.
科学的知識の増加とともに、人間の悪を行う力は、善を行う力に比例して増えてきた。
We will make an exception of your case.
君の場合は例外としよう。
For example, this is a pen.
例えば、これは一本のペンです。
She was as great a scientist as ever lived.
彼女はこれまでに例のないほどの偉大な科学者だった。
Do not delete this example sentence.
この例文を削除しないでください。
Have you answered that letter yet?
もう例の手紙の返事を書いたかい。
The example doesn't fall into any type stated above.
この例は先にあげたどのタイプにも当てはまらない。
Every rule has its exceptions.
例外のないルールはない。
He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.
彼はその文法書から多くの用例を引用している。
Truth is usually expressed in the present tense.
真理は通例現在時制で表現される。
I have gathered examples with the object of making a dictionary.
私は辞書をつくる目的で用例を集めた。
As is usual with him Mike was late for the meeting this afternoon.
例によって、マイクは今日の午後会合に遅刻した。
When parents get old in Japan, they are customarily looked after by their children.
日本では親は年をとると、通例子供たちの世話になる。
In early times, inventions were often stumbled upon by accident.
昔は偶然ぶつかったことが発明となった例が多い。
We have had more snow than usual this winter.
この冬は例年になく雪が多かった。
"Tatoeba" means "for example" in Japanese.
"Tatoeba"とは日本語で「例えば」という意味です。
In proportion as our GNP increases, our living standards go up.
国民総生産が増えるのに比例して、我々の生活水準も上がる。
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。
There are interesting examples in the Hopi language concerning onomatopoetic expressions.
擬声語的表現については、ホピ語に興味深い例がある。
As is his way, he eats reading a newspaper.
例によって彼は新聞を読みながら食事をしている。
That accident is a good illustration of his carelessness.
あの事故は彼の不注意のよい例である。
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
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。
We can apply this rule to that case.
私たちはその事例にこの規則を適用できる。
Every law has its exception.
例外のない規則はありません。
For example, this is a pen.
例えば、これはペンです。
About that matter, how did it go?
例の件、どうなった？
Reporter: Can you give me an example?
記者：例を１つあげてくださいますか。
Soon the same waiter came back to pick up the dishes.
まもなく例のウエーターが皿を片付けに戻ってきた。
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
