"Mary, are you not standing to be head of department?" "I do want to, but according to regulations you have to be male." "What an outdated, discriminatory rule. We should try to get it changed immediately."の英語

"Your work has been causing a lot of complaints from customers; I'm ordering you to leave immediately." "Oh, up yours! I didn't want to work here in the first place."

"Your work has been causing a lot of complaints from customers; I'm ordering you to leave immediately." "Oh, up yours! I didn't want to work here in the first place."

"What made you decide to become a doctor?" "I was interested in the human body, and I wanted to help other people."

"I just ran into a friend today who had transferred schools a while back." "Cool!" "Yeah. Then, we talked about movies, and they suggested we go watch one sometime soon. Is that OK?" "Sure! But, is this friend a boy or a girl?" "....."

"I guess you just slept through our last class." "Yeah, I wasn't able to keep myself awake any longer. Do you think the teacher noticed?" "They didn't seem to notice, but you completely dozed off, so all the boys were laughing about it." "Yikes. That's probably even worse."

In America, even secretaries and clerks call professors by their first name, which is unimaginable in Japan.

It was your cousin. Second year, current member of student council, club activity is basketball, working as vice captain.

When I was in elementary school I thought, from the bottom of my heart, that the teachers were great people and I was influenced by the teachers' attitudes and moral lessons, but middle school was just a business like any other.

One day my youngest daughter abruptly asked, “Mum, why do men swear so much?" I played for time. “Um—do they?"

"You should write a novel or something." "Nah, I don't think so. I can't see myself coming up with anything good, anyways."

This girl is still in elementary school, yet she has a wine-tasting master license. I didn't know one could get qualified without even drinking alcohol.

Young mothers who have to take care of their small children, and have to stay (at) home all day, often feel caged in.

A boy and a girl came in. I spoke to the boy, who seemed to be older than the girl.

"...Hey...Hey, teacher!" "Eh? Oh." "Are you really OK? Shouldn't you cancel the lesson?"

Lots of people don't get into university the first time around. Why don't you pull yourself together, spend an extra year study, and try again next year?

A man with a knife entered the school grounds, killed seven second graders and one first grader, and wounded many others.

I think that the expression "Is this seat taken?" is even more natural sounding and polite than "May I sit here?".

I feel like dating a smaller guy doesn't make me feel protected, but rather like I'm going on a trip with a middle schooler. But most people don't really care about height anymore, do they?

When I went to the dentist, he told me to raise my hand whenever it hurt, but when I did he waved me off and told me to hang on a minute. So what was the point of him telling me that earlier?

"You need to return home soon.", "huh, just give me a little more time to play!", "Sorry, but if we are late I will get scolded by your mama"

"Love isn't related to money, is it?" "Is it not? Money certainly isn't everything, but love is enriched by having money." "That's probably realistic." "You're often too unrealistic."

It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.

Please give me her cell phone number.The reason is I lost my cell phone and no longer know her cell phone number.

Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.

"What are you studying at university?" "Philosophy" "Philosophy? How is that going to be useful?" "So that I can learn about the importance of things which have no use."

"When you join together the sleeves on a kimono, does the right side or the left side go on top?" "The left goes on top. So that when others see it it looks like a y." Thanks."

He never got married because, as he said, “It's too much trouble humoring [《口語》 buttering up] a woman."

What surprised me most when I first entered college was how few of my classmates knew how to study efficiently.

I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.

"Eep, my shirt's on backward! Hold on, you already knew, didn't you? Why didn't you tell me? I literally just gave a big lecture looking like this!" "Well, they say ignorance is bliss. I just figured it'd be best if I didn't say anything."