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There's an exception to every rule.
どの規則にも例外がある。
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。
For instance, "delight" is the opposite of "sorrow."
例えば、「喜び」の反対語は「悲しみ」です。
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。
Do you have a hobby - for example, painting?
何か趣味がありますか?例えば絵を描くみたいな。
I remember that place.
例の場所のこと、思い出しています。
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
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。
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。
As is often the case with him, he didn't show up on time.
例によって彼はまた時間どおりに現れなかった。
The income tax rate increases in proportion to the salary increase.
給与が増えるに比例して、所得税率もあがっていく。
I want to go abroad, for instance, to Italy and Spain.
私は例えばイタリアやスペインなど外国へ行きたい。
This is an instance of modern British life.
これは英国の現代生活のほんの一例だ。
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。
There are exceptions to every rule.
どんな規則にも例外がある。
Let me give you an example.
私はあなたに一例を示しましょう。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
Even if you are not to blame, you should apologize.
例え君が悪くなくても、謝るべきだ。
This rule has no application to the case.
この規則はその事例に適用できない。
The speaker illustrated the theory with examples.
話し手は例を用いてその理論を説明した。
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
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.