Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [せっかく]

The temporary workers that we managed to employ left work right away.

What a waste of your lawyer qualifications!

Whoa, if we keep chatting, despite actually arriving early, we'll end up late!

Your wonderful lecture was pearls before swine.

Whatever the reason, forfeiting the trade that we finally got on track is a fiasco.

I'm sorry that I wasn't home when you so kindly dropped by.

He threw cold water on what I was doing.

We'd better try to sell or give away all these white elephants we've collected.

He has failed after all his labors.

If you could do it at all, I'd like you to do it.

After a mad dash down the stairway, I missed my train by a second.

Even though I ran down the stairs, I couldn't catch the train.

Though I went to see her all the way in the rain, she was out.

All my pains went for nothing.

All my pains were in vain.

I am sorry, but I have someone coming.

After I got all worked up about ordering in English, I walked in the store and they greeted me with "Irasshaimase!" I felt, like, "What the ...?"

As such is the case, I am sorry I can't accept your kind invitation.

You just made me miss the perfect shot when you hollered.

Having climbed all the way to the shrine, I decided to dedicate a votive horse tablet.