もう少しやさしく意見してあげたらどうなの。一刀両断のもと切り捨てられた彼の立場も考えてよ。の英語

Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.

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.

Although the man's ideas are sound, because he can't express them well, he doesn't have a ghost of a chance of getting them accepted.

He kept complaining so much, without doing anything to help, that I finally had to tell him to fish or cut bait.

"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."

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.

But looking back on those days, I think the friendly competition was essential for my development.

You guys seem to think your proposal is far and away the best, but as far as I'm concerned it's all six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

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

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 I win, I get a prize. If he wins, he's got to pay me the money he owes me. Either way I can't lose.

When I went to the dentist, he told me to raise my hand whenever it hurt, but when I did he waved me off and told me to hang on a minute. So what was the point of him telling me that earlier?

Curious gazes, gazes carrying a bit of murderous intent...it goes without saying that I couldn't be more uncomfortable.

Curious gazes, gazes carrying a bit of murderous intent ... it goes without saying that I couldn't be more uncomfortable.

At that time, the verbal abuse of patients by doctors was a public concern and I thought that maybe I could do a better job of communicating with patients.

When I was in middle school, I was talking with my therapist, and we had such a great talk that I thought "Maybe there's something between us", and I tried to get a kiss. But she gave me the cold shoulder and told me to stop. It was at this moment I knew I had screwed up.

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.

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?

Go ahead! Make my day!

Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class if you don't face it in real earnest then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.

Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class; if you don't face it in real earnest, then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.

That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.

Having idled jobless for a while I wavered. I'd rushed into handing in my notice but maybe I should have endured it and kept going...

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.

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.

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 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?" "....."

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.

Then, while saying this, the memories of the men who had seduced her, her husband's colleague who had approached her as if it were a joke, the section chief with whom she had held hands, her relative who she had tried to kiss while she was drunk, shined as if projected upon a broken mirror.