この女の子、まだ小学生なのに利き酒師の資格を持っているんだってさ。お酒が飲めなくても資格が取れるなんて知らなかったよ。の英語

This girl is still in elementary school, yet she has a wine-tasting master license. I didn't know one could get qualified without even drinking alcohol.

"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?" "....."

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?

He never got married because, as he said, “It's too much trouble humoring [《口語》 buttering up] a woman."

"Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog." "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."

Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.

It's not because you have a title, that you're a noble. There are people who have a natural nobility and are fine nobles. People like us who only have nobility titles are not nobles, we're more like peasants.

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.

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

I kept saying "Let's stop" but she drained cup after cup of wine -- and now, as you can see, she's completely drunk.

A man with a knife entered the school grounds, killed seven second graders and one first grader, and wounded many others.

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.

Once the dreaded entrance exams are behind them, Japanese youngsters suffer a psychological letdown and slack off in their study habits.

I kept saying "Let's stop" but she drained cup after cup of wine -- and now, as you can see, she's completely drunk.

"Shall we go for a glass of wine somewhere?" "I've got to go home. My husband and children are waiting to have their dinner with me."

"Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog." "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."

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.

"I guess you just slept through our last class." "Yeah, I wasn't able to keep myself awake any longer. Do you think the teacher noticed?" "They didn't seem to notice, but you completely dozed off, so all the boys were laughing about it." "Yikes. That's probably even worse."

It was your cousin. Second year, current member of student council, club activity is basketball, working as vice captain.

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

Don't get such a big head just because you won the tournament. There's many others in the world who are just as good as you.

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

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

"Hey, is it good? What's good about it?" "You just want to know because you made it, don't you?" "Exactly."

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.

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.

"Eep, my shirt's on backward! Hold on, you already knew, didn't you? Why didn't you tell me? I literally just gave a big lecture looking like this!" "Well, they say ignorance is bliss. I just figured it'd be best if I didn't say anything."

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.

"What are you studying at university?" "Philosophy" "Philosophy? How is that going to be useful?" "So that I can learn about the importance of things which have no use."

When I was in middle school, I had a friend in the track club who normally studied 3 hours a day. He didn't speed up the pace before tests. On the contrary, he didn't have any club activities and so had lot of free time, so before the test we would go to his house and play video games every day. If we hadn't done that, I would have gotten better grades too.