Each part of a book starts with references to its author's life: a passage from a read book, a question directed to a stranger on a roadside, something shouted by a girlfriend.の英語

Each part of a book starts with references to its author's life: a passage from a read book, a question directed to a stranger on a roadside, something shouted by a girlfriend.

Each part of the book starts with a quote taken from the life of the author: a passage from a book, a question asked to a stranger on the road, something shouted by a girlfriend.

a cross with two crossbars, one above and one below the midpoint of the vertical, the lower longer than the upper

a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward

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.

the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February

There is a paper plane that can fly to the end of the world, a stuffed monkey that hugs you and a dinosaur that loves to play Frisbee.

today [this day] week

What does "There is a tide" imply? (Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)

a method of writing Japanese calligraphy in big letters by holding a brush vertically and keeping the elbow away from the body

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

the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)

an impersonal verb

But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.

a page at the end of a book, on which the title, author, publisher, published year and a price are printed

a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor

I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.

used in order to make the expression in Japanese poetry or prose more interesting, a word closely related to the main words of the work

on bad [equal, good, speaking, visiting] terms (with…)

the repetition of the substance of a person's words without directly quoting them

Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology

I give you due warning―give you fair warning.

The time order is presently, 'Tale0' -> 'Tale1' -> 'Tale2' -> 'Tale2.5'->'Talk1' so it could be better to read them that way.

Article 733 of the Civil Code stipulates the period of prohibition of remarriage by stating that "A woman may not remarry unless six months have passed since the day of dissolution or rescission of her previous marriage."

during the Edo period in Japan, a merchant who dealt regularly with the Daimyos' city warehouse and who conducted the trading of rice {as well rice tax collection}

The 3 Shokin refers to the three big Shoken Kinyu (securities finance) companies in Japan: Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd., Osaka Securities Financing Co., Ltd. and Chubu Securities Financing Co., Ltd.

I request you will insert the whole letter in your paper, and withdraw your former statement.

a single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required

the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years