Tanoshii Japanese

彼は一日中食事もとらずに小説に熱中している。

He has been absorbed in the novel all day without eating.

結局は虻蜂とらずになってしまった。

If you try for too much, you'll end up with nothing at all.

そんなに欲をかいていると、虻蜂取らずになっちゃうよ。

Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.

その提案一石二鳥を狙ったものだろうけど、「虻蜂とらず」にならなければいいけどね。

That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.

えりこは食事もとらずに長い間、一生懸命働いたので、倒れるのではないかと思った。

Eriko worked so long and so hard, without stopping to eat, that I feared she would faint.

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