Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.
It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
This problem seems to be easy on the surface, but it's really difficult.
この問題は一見簡単そうだが実は難しい。
There is more in his character than simple honesty.
彼の性格には単なる正直以上のものがある。
Mr. White and I aren't friends. We're just acquaintances.
ホワイト氏と私とは友人ではありません。単なる知り合いです。
Some English words derive from Japanese.
英単語のいくつかは日本語に由来しています。
I'm tired of the monotonous life.
私は単調な生活に飽きた。
In the English language many words contain letters which are not pronounced.
英語では多くの単語が発音しない文字を含んでいる。
Flour is sold by the pound.
小麦粉は１ポンド単位で売られる。
Playing tennis is easy for me.
テニスをすることは私には簡単だ。
It's cheaper to order things by the dozen.
ダース単位で注文する方が安いですよ。
That which is easily acquired is easily lost.
簡単に手に入れたものはすぐに失いやすい。
Would you please tell me how to spell that word?
その単語のつづりを教えてくれませんか。
Sometimes, everyone is simple minded.
時々、皆さんは単細胞だ。
She says her life is monotonous.
彼女は生活が単調だという。
It is easy for him to carry out the plan.
彼がその計画を実行することは簡単だ。
The meaning of a word is determined by the context where it is used.
単語の意味はそれが使われている文脈で決まる。
Many English words are derived from Latin.
多くの英単語はラテン語に由来する。
He looked up the word in the dictionary.
彼は辞書でその単語を調べた。
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
単語の意味がわからなければ、辞書で調べなさい。
English is not easy, but it is interesting.
英語は簡単でない、しかし面白い。
I found it easy to answer the question.
その問題は解いてみると簡単でした。
It is easy to make friends even in the new places.
新しい場所でも友達を作るのは簡単だ。
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, ha
