僕は、黄色い粉末を白い粉末と混ぜて茶色の粉末にしたり、結晶を粉末と混ぜてほこりにしたり、液体を固体と結合させて、泥を作ったりなどあれこれやってみたのだ。の英語

I tried this and that, blending yellow with white powders and obtaining brown, mixing crystals with powders and getting dust, combining liquids with solids and making mud.

Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.

Trucks came and dumped big stones on the road, then some trucks with little stones, then some trucks with tar and sand, and finally a steam roller came and rolled it all smooth, and the road was done.

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

His book is oriented towards children, but here and there are words that he has never seen before. He doesn't know whether it is just him, or if they are just simply difficult words, but he finds them not worth the effort to look up in a dictionary, so he just keeps on reading.

When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.

Even though I put my all into this to begin with it ended up being menial work, so I think it didn't turn out great.

When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.

At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "This won't do".

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

I had no toys or anything else, so I used a chalk that had been bought for me and drew pictures and letters on a closet door.

A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.

By the way, is there some blog or column online that you check often? Well, it doesn't have to be online; magazines are fine, too.

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.

But you see, while other people may not know, in my case, if I just had the time, I'd be buried over my head in things I'd want to do. I don't have the time to not think about things I need or want.

They not only washed off the sweat, dirt and cares of the day in the hot water, but also enjoyed gossiping about everyday affairs.

When I was a university student in Kyoto, I was doing part-time jobs, skipping classes, and having fun with my friends, just like other students.

That little house looks just like the little house my grandmother lived in when she was a little girl, on a hill covered with daisies and apple trees growing around.

Once you go ahead and start, even the tiresome work of adding and subtracting figures is interesting in its way.

Looks, brains, reflexes, rich family and, for good measure, vice president of the student committee - in other words he's 'perfect'.

To make time for skating, I did my homework during recess and training breaks and got changed in a car on my way to school after morning practice.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

I walked along with stroller pushers, roller-bladers, children riding bicycles, people in wheelchairs, old couples walking hand in hand, and a visually impaired man with his assistant.

Dreams flew out of that box when it was opened: dreams of secrets written in disappearing ink and of overwhelming odors.

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.

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.

To make time for skating, I did my homework during recess and training breaks and got changed in a car on my way to school after morning practice.

"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?" "....."