Whenever I come home late at night, my parents scold me and it annoys me. No matter how late I come back, they're awake and waiting for me. It would be so nice if they just went to sleep instead.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Whenever I come home late at night, my parents scold me and it annoys me. No matter how late I come back, they're awake and waiting for me. It would be so nice if they just went to sleep instead.

"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"

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

It's great that my nephew and niece came over to play, but they're so annoying making such a racket running all over the house all day that I can't stand it.

"I couldn't sleep last night because that cat wouldn't shut up with its meowing." "Same. I woke up, too." "And apparently my neighbor couldn't take it anymore either. When he yelled at the cat to shut up, it ran away, but I was so startled I couldn't go back to sleep."

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."

"If you are sleepy then you should go to bed" "I am still not tired" "But all you have been doing is yawning for quite some time, you should go to bed to avoid overworking yourself." "You want me to go to bed that much?"

Having sleep problems, as you know, I woke up three times last night. So this morning I was very sleepy.

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.

"Mom, why do you like this house so much?" "Hmm, I don't really know why." "What?" "Oh, never mind that. Now eat your food."

In the old days we always used to go home at lunchtime, but nowadays most children have lunch at school.

I've always been a light sleeper, but that night I was so fast [sound] asleep that even that din didn't wake me.

All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.

"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?" "....."

The following morning she said close to my ears: "We're going back to Paris tonight. He says that there's no way that he'll leave me alone in such a sad place. That's how it is."

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.

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.

"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 don't feel like going to college today." “Then stay home.” “No, I'm not doing that either.” “Why not?”

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.

But the boys I defeated in elementary school started growing bigger and stronger and I couldn't beat them anymore.

"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."

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

"It's cold, isn't it? With it being this cold, you'd want to go into hibernation, wouldn't you?" "Eh, the colder weather stresses me out, but I'd rather sleep through the summer."

You say that you're afraid of being disliked by other people, but you have some people that you dislike yourself, don't you? Arithmetically speaking, there are an equal number of people who you don't like that don't like you back. I'm not saying that if you end your dislike of someone, someone else will stop disliking you as well; it's just that you can't change the fact that if you dislike someone, then someone else dislikes you as well. Your life will go much smoother if you just give up and accept that truth.

"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."

"I got angry again today" "hmph" "They said some very weird things again, are you listening?"

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.

"You're late back today." "Yeah... I got caught up in a conversation when I met an old friend on the way back and now look at the time!" "I'm hungry." "I know, I know. I'll get straight to making it now."