最初の頃は結構気を張ってたけどそのうちやっつけ仕事になったから、そんな質のいいもんじゃなかったと思うわ。の英語

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.

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

"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."

I like this job, but I'd prefer not to call my boss over in a loud voice whenever something bad happens. I'm partial to elegance.

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?

I think I'll have more fun reading something now. I was always part of the bookworm group, but there are times when I just don't feel like reading anything. Right now I'm getting lots of "Read! Read!" waves coming at me.

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

I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

As you'd expect from a high-end model, the user settings are amazingly detailed. It seems like it'll be a while until I can get one of my own.

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.

"I think it is exhausting, but todays troubles will surely be rewarded" "Don't say such half-minded things, even if you don't believe them completely."

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.

It's your first time doing this kind of work. You should follow the manual exactly until you get more experience.

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.

I was surprised when I got a call from my daughter's workplace, saying that she had suddenly collapsed. She had struck her head, so I was worried, but was relieved when I was notified by the hospital that they had found nothing wrong with her.

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

In my secondary school days, I was much impressed by how my hospitalised grandfather would often tell the nurses there, "Thank you, I appreciate your help."

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.

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.

Comfort can spoil you. Once in a while, it can do you good to corner yourself (in a tight spot).

Comfort can spoil you. Once in a while, it can do you good to corner yourself.

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

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.

I was getting close to the summit, but there were several boulders in my way, and trying to get over them almost did me in. Sometimes there were loose rocks all over the place, too.

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.

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.

If you eat with someone you like, everything is delicious, if you eat with someone you don't like, everything is nasty. If you eat alone, you can't taste anything at all.

There was nothing wrong with their ability, it was just that the expense for each unit was so vast that the cost performance was bad.

If I have to stay here for the same amount of time anyway, surely studying a little and then going home is better?