Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [もので]

In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!

The result of my exams was not what I had expected.

We have to make the best of what we have.

We have to make the best of what we have.

When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.

I found the book boring.

My remarks were not aimed at you.

I didn't aim my remarks at you.

My point is a broader one.

In a sense, I am turning around the argument made by David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd.

I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

Although we may intend to judge a person on the basis of his or her personal qualities, they are not visible at first sight.

Institutions, however noble their missions, have failed to replace the family.

You shouldn't say such a thing in the presence of children.

You shouldn't say that kind of thing when children are around.

He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

A radical disarmament treaty prohibits all armaments and armed forces.

Today's land problems are the product of years of neglect by successive governments.

I am not satisfied with my performance today.

Nations are not to be judged by their size any more than individuals.