Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
Shugo is a colloquial way of referring to someone who can drink large quantities of alcohol and additionally not feel the effects of intoxication.
酒豪とは、アルコール飲料を大量に飲むことが出来、さらにこれで酔態をさらさない者の俗称である。
We nicknamed her "Ann".
私たちは彼女を「アン」という愛称で呼んだ。
General Franks received an honorary knighthood.
フランクス陸軍大将がナイト爵位の名誉称号を授かりました。
Everyone who knew him admired him.
彼を知っているものは皆彼を称賛した。
He called himself an Edison of Japan.
彼は自らを日本のエジソンと称した。
USA stands for the United States of America.
USAはアメリカ合衆国の略称です。
His noble deed deserves praise indeed.
彼の崇高な行為は本当に称賛に値する。
I congratulate him, I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.
It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.
There were many journalists who praised Ogawa with, "bravo, good show!"
「お見事、よくやった」と小川選手を褒め称える報道が多かった。
The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.