"including in its sweep a sunken italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore."とは 意味・読み方・使い方

It came in a handsome wooden box and contained a rack for test tubes, glass bottles of powerful powders, a little packet of sensitive paper (litmus, I think), a glass rod, the manual and suitably exciting poison labels.

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae

one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

This is excellently painted, isn't it?—No, I'm afraid it leaves something to be desired [leaves a little to be desired, lacks (a certain) something].

a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen

A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as a ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.

It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.

a nebula that was once thought to be a star with its planets but is now thought to be a very hot star surrounded by an expanding envelope of ionized gases that emit a fluorescent glow because of intense radiation from the star

By then Tony was in his middle sixties and still able to work hard, but he had a brand-new truck now, a new mower, a lot of other equipment and three people helping him.

in a comic interlude of a Noh drama, the action of pushing an actor who portrays an insane, revengeful specter back onto the stage along the passageway that connects the back of a theater to the stage

This is a bulky volume of 2,000 pages, and it is no easy matter to read it through [and one can't run through it in a short time].

a turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's

If you take a close look at the nature around you, for example a small flower on your everyday route or a slight change in the weather, you'll have a new encounter with a natural wonder.

a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match)

For example, when I see scenery from a car window, when I see an interesting building while walking, when I recall a long movie in a single moment, and especially when I see the work of a painter I admire.

We live in a machine age; motorcars, TV sets, clothes, and books, to name but a few [to mention only a few], are all machine‐made products.

Going back through faint memories of my early childhood, I come across a scene in which my mother, still alive and beautiful, was looking down at me with a loving air.

As the popping sound of the fireworks stopped, it suddenly became quiet around me. The smell of gunpowder somehow put me in a sentimental mood.

Time passed quickly for the Little House as she watched the countryside slowly change with the seasons.

We look back on days gone by if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

The fat woman, the young couple, the sleeping Indian and the tall man in black, but now skin and flesh and hair had disappeared, and empty eye sockets stared from gleaming white skulls.

Seeing trees verdant with young leaves, birds singing in the trees, and children playing on the lawn—how keenly I wished to live!

The drunk turned nasty when asked to leave the bar, and accused the barman of overcharging.

As Kanda was off sick for about three weeks last month, the progress of the work has been delayed, and now that the deadline is drawing near the pressure is really on us.

such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin

Our child was born just after April 1st , so he entered school one year later than our neighbor's son who was born in February.

For example, when two players say "a little bit thinner," one player may mean 0.3 millimeters thinner while another player may mean 0.4 millimeters.

He does not, in short, write with the candor of man who is completely confident of his thesis.

When you want to say "I promise", if you say "koko ni chikaimasu" you'll sound more like a native.