その頃、彼は私のどんな小さな発音の間違いをもとがめた。それは煩わしかった。特に人前では。の英語

At that time, he pointed out every single pronunciation mistake I made, no matter how small it was. It was annoying. Especially in front of other people.

Like those of many who knew English, his English was very basic: "How much is it?" and "It's not my size."

I prepared myself to hear a lot of stories from his past. But in the end, he talked about his and Japan's future.

He tried to act cheerfully, but we all knew how sad he felt.

he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative

The bigger the words he used, the harder it was to find anything in them.

The bigger words he used, the harder it was to find anything inside of them.

He told me that when he was young, he was very eager to be popular, and wanted to make a good impression on everyone.

It was meant as a compliment, so I didn't want to tell him that he had missed the point.

You cannot imagine how wonderfully he sang.

From his severe expression, I knew he had already heard the bad news.

I thought, "I'll try every kind of music first, and then decide which one to pursue."

My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconvenience, and I was frequently chided for my singularity.

He said he still has many rakugo stories to learn.

I was born into the family of a kyogen master, so kyogen was a natural part of my life while I was growing up.

By opening my mouth at the wrong time, I'm always putting myself and my pals behind the eight ball.

whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could

He studied the way he regained his ability to communicate with others after losing his senses of sight and hearing.

Ichiro sounded somehow upset but my long years of hanging out with him told me that it was out and out fake.

In that year I met these philosophers. They had a great influence on my later life.

Ichirou sounded somehow upset but my long years of hanging out with him told me that it was out and out fake.

Having lost the game over and over again, he finally gave in.

I thought it odd that he was unusually reticent.

He bought a rare book, or better, a book that nobody wants.

The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it--Robert Frost

He said that I overcame various hardships to get this far.

He does not know what he wants to do with his life and he often gets into trouble with the police.

His efforts went for little [much, nothing, something].

I hear that he was quite a ladies' man when he was young.

He was a little reticent about his past.