To my campaign manager, David Plouffe! The unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best, the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.
The adventures I read about are absent from my life.
私の読んだ冒険談は実生活とは縁遠い。
Poverty seemed to have nothing to do with them in those days.
当時、貧乏は彼らにとっては無縁なものと思われた。
An insulated soft-wood room and a good heater are the absolute necessities for a sauna.
軟木の絶縁された部屋およびよいヒーターはサウナのための絶対必要である。
The path is bordered with hedges.
その道縁には垣根がある。
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
４は日本語では縁起の悪い数字だ。
He often uses the slightest thing as a pretext for a fight with anybody.
あの男はよくつまらぬことで誰にでも因縁をつける。
In the garden, you know. I'd like to put out benches and increase the customer seating. Like this ...
このお庭の方にね。縁台を出して客席を増やしたいんです。こんな感じに。
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.
I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like
