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1				These themed sentences are from ALC's website and are intended for Japanese native speakers who are learning English.	http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/kaiwa/hyogen/index.html (then click "テーマ別表現集")
2					◆ = alternate translation
3	No. overall	Theme	No.	Example Sentence (J)	Example Sentence (E)

4	1	Alcohol	1	お酒弱いんですよ。	I can't hold my liquor. ◆ It only takes a sip to get me drunk.
5	2	Alcohol	2	あいつお酒強いよ。	That guy can hold his liquor. ◆ He can handle a lot of liquor.
6	3	Alcohol	3	酔っぱらうと絡むからあいつとは飲みたくないんだ。	I don't want to drink with that guy. He gets belligerent when he drinks.
7	4	Alcohol	4	お酒は飲まないんですけど、雰囲気が好きなんでよく仲間と飲み屋には行きますよ。	I don't drink, myself, but I like the atmosphere, so I often tag along when my friends go out drinking.
8	5	Alcohol	5	あいつは笑い上戸だから。	That guy is a laughing drunk. ◆ He can't stop laughing when he drinks.
9	6	Alcohol	6	彼女は泣き上戸だから。	She's a sulky drunk. ◆ She starts crying when she gets drunk.
10	7	Alcohol	7	今日の宴会は無礼講ということで。みんな、パーッとやりましょう。	Tonight's party is informal -- no standing on ceremony. So I hope everybody will just let their hair down and party.
11	8	Alcohol	8	遅れて来たんだから、駆けつけ三杯だな。	You're late, and you know what that means! You have to chug three to catch up with us.
12	9	Alcohol	9	もうみんな若くないんだから、イッキはやめようよ。	Come on. We're not young any more, so let's lay off the chugging.
13	10	Alcohol	10	とりあえずビールにしよう。	Let's start off with a beer.
14	11	Alcohol	11	ビールは最初の一杯だね。後は惰性。	The first gulp of beer is the best. After that, it's just force of habit.
15	12	Alcohol	12	何か適当なものを見繕って出してよ。	Order me whatever you like. I'll trust you.
16	13	Alcohol	13	もう一軒飲みに行こうよ。まだ、終電までは時間があるんだから。	Let's go have one for the road. There's still time before the last train home.
17	14	Alcohol	14	あいつまた酔った振りして女子社員の体さわってる。そのうちセクハラで訴えられるぞ。	That guy is still pretending to be drunk and using it as an excuse to grope that female employee. He's going to get charged with sexual harassment if he keeps that up.
18	15	Alcohol	15	飲み過ぎたかな。気分が悪くなってきた。	I don't feel so good. Maybe I drank too much.
19	16	Alcohol	16	今夜も飲み会に来られないの。君、つき合い悪いね。	You can't go out drinking with us tonight either? You're no fun at all, are you?
20	17	Alcohol	17	あまり飲んでもないし、ろくな物も食べてないのに、割り勘かよ。	What do you mean I have to split the bill? I haven't had much to drink, and I didn't eat much to speak of.
21	18	Alcohol	18	この店はこれくらいにして、別の所へ行きましょう。	Let's wrap things up at this place, and move on to the next pub/bar/restaurant.
22	19	Alcohol	19	いい気分で酒飲んでたら、終電の時間が過ぎてしまった。今夜はビジネスホテル泊まりだな。	I was having such a good time drinking that I missed the last train home. I guess I'll be spending the night in a business hotel tonight.
23	20	Alcohol	20	今夜もまた午前様か。かみさんが怒っている顔が目に浮かぶよ。	Uh-oh. It looks like I'll get home after midnight again tonight. I can already see my wife's angry face.
24	21	Alcohol	21	酒飲んだんだから、車運転するのは止めろよ。事故ったら取り返しがつかないぞ。	You're not driving after all you've had to drink. If you cause an accident, it's not something you can take back.
25	22	Alcohol	22	今夜は酒を飲んで、憂さ晴らしでもするか。	What do you say we drown our sorrows in sake/beer/liquor tonight?
26	23	Alcohol	23	温泉に入って、一杯やりたい気分だね。	I feel like taking a dip in a hot spring and relaxing with a drink.
27	24	Alcohol	24	男だけで飲んでも少しも楽しくないよ。	It's no fun to drink with just a bunch of guys.
28	25	Alcohol	25	昨日飲み過ぎて、どうやって家に帰ったのか全然覚えていないんだ。	I drank too much last night, and have no idea how I got home.
29	26	Alcohol	26	飲むと人間が変わる奴っているよな。	Some people take on completely different personalities when they drink. ◆ Some people's personalities change when they drink.
30	27	Alcohol	27	最近、お酒を飲むと涙もろくなちゃって。	Recently, I get all teary-eyed and sentimental when I drink.
31	28	Alcohol	28	僕は日本酒党なんですよ。	I'm a sake drinker. ◆ I drink Japanese sake, mostly.
32	29	Alcohol	29	今夜は僕がおごるから、付き合えよ。	Come on and have a drink with me. It's my treat.
33	30	Alcohol	30	あいつは酒飲むとすぐに寝ちゃうんだ。	That guy falls asleep as soon as he starts drinking.
34	31	Alcohol	31	空きっ腹にお酒を飲むのは胃に良くないよ。	Drinking on an empty stomach isn't good for your insides. ◆ It's not good for your stomach to drink on an empty stomach.
35	32	Alcohol	32	夏はやっぱりビールだよね。	Beer is great in the summer. ◆ Summer is beer season.
36	33	Alcohol	33	うー寒。熱燗で一杯やっていくか。	It sure is cold. Do you want to go have some hot sake?
37	34	Alcohol	34	昨日は３軒もはしごしちゃって、結局、家に帰れずに友達のところに泊めてもらったんだ。	Last night I went bar hopping with a friend. We went to three places, and I ended up staying over at his place instead of going home.
38	35	Alcohol	35	何事も「程良く」がよい。飲み過ぎは体によくない。	"Everything in moderation," they say. Drinking too much is bad for you.
39	36	Alcohol	36	日本酒はどんな料理にも合うね。	Sake goes with any kind of food.
40	37	Alcohol	37	魚料理に赤ワインってことはないだろ。やっぱり白だよ。	There's no red wine that goes with fish. We need white wine.
41	38	Alcohol	38	食前酒には何を飲もうか？	What do you want to drink before dinner?
42	39	Alcohol	39	この酒、なかなか手に入らない幻の名酒だよ。	This sake is a rare one that you can't get your hands on whenever you want.
43	40	Alcohol	40	ノンアルコールのビールありますか？	Do you have non-alcoholic beer?
44	41	Alcohol	41	ちゃんぽんで飲むと悪酔いするよ。	You'll have a bad time if you mix your drinks.
45	42	Alcohol	42	酒は百薬の長って言うだろ。もう一杯いこう。	Let's have another drink. They say it's good for what ails you.
46	43	Alcohol	43	酒の飲み過ぎは万病のもとだよ。	Drinking too much is the cause of a thousand illnesses.
47	44	Alcohol	44	お酒は楽しく飲むものです。	We should enjoy ourselves while drinking.
48	45	Alcohol	45	宗教で禁じられているのでお酒は飲めません。	I don't drink alcohol. It's against my religion. / My religion forbids it.
49	46	Alcohol	46	昨晩飲みすぎて、ひどい二日酔いだ。	I drank too much last night, and now I have a terrible hangover.
50	47	Alcohol	47	このお酒強いね。胃に火がついたみたいだ。	This liquor is strong, isn't it? My stomach feels like it's on fire.
51	48	Alcohol	48	一杯やって、パーっと憂さばらししよう。	I think I'll go out, have a drink and drown my troubles.
52	49	Alcohol	49	デートに居酒屋？ムードなさすぎだよ。	You're taking your date to a pub? Where's the romance/atmosphere in that?
53	50	Alcohol	50	顔が真っ赤だよ。もうやめといたほうがいい。	Your face is bright red. You'd better stop drinking.
54	51	Alcohol	51	酒は飲んでも飲まれるな。	It's all right to drink, but don't let the drink take control.
55	52	Alcohol	52	一般的に、日本人は白人よりお酒に弱い人が多い。	In general, Japanese tend more than whites to be unable to metabolize alcohol.
56	53	Alcohol	53	アメリカでは、未成年の飲酒は厳しく禁じられている。	In the United States, underage drinking is strictly prohibited.
57	54	Alcohol	54	春先は新入生歓迎会などがあるので、急性アルコール中毒の患者が多い。	There are a lot of alcohol poisoning cases in early spring, since that's when there are a lot of reception parties for new college students.
58	55	Alcohol	55	大酒飲みには高血圧の人が多い。	High blood pressure is common among heavy drinkers.
59	56	Animals	1	キリンの首はなんであんなに長いのだろう。	Why do giraffes have such long necks?
60	57	Animals	2	ああ僕もあんな風にずっと木にぶら下がっていたいよ。	Ahh, I wish I could just hang from a tree like that and do nothing all day.
61	58	Animals	3	ライオンが動物園から逃げたらしいよ。	It seems a lion has escaped from the zoo.
62	59	Animals	4	マンドリルって、派手な顔だよね。	Mandrills have such gaudy-looking faces.
63	60	Animals	5	えりまきトカゲがブームの時代があったな。	There was a time when frilled lizards were in style.
64	61	Animals	6	トキが絶滅しそうなのはなにが原因だったのだろう。	I wonder what it is that's pushed the Japanese ibis to the brink of extinction.
65	62	Animals	7	コアラはかわいいけど怪力らしいよ。	Koalas are cute, but I hear they have phenomenal strength.
66	63	Animals	8	ツチノコって本当に存在するのかなあ。	Does the (legendary) tsuchinoko really exist? ◆ Is there really such a thing as a tsuchinoko.
67	64	Animals	9	また人の残り物を食っているよ。ハイエナみたいな奴だな。	It looks like a hyena. He's eating the garbage people have left behind again.
68	65	Animals	10	責任感のない人は動物を飼うべきじゃない。	People with no sense of responsibility have no business keeping/raising pets.
69	66	Animals	11	どうしてもその雑種犬が欲しいんだな。ドーベルマンじゃなくていいんだな。	You just have to have that hybrid (dog). Your dog doesn't have to be a Doberman pinscher.
70	67	Animals	12	アザラシって南極にもいるのかなあ	I wonder if there are seals in Antarctica as well.
71	68	Animals	13	アイアイは南の島の猿だよ。	The aye-aye is a monkey found on south Pacific islands.
72	69	Animals	14	どうしてカゴから文鳥をだしたの。逃げちゃったじゃない。	Why did you let the Java sparrow out of the basket? He got away.
73	70	Animals	15	あの象さみしそうだよ。アフリカに帰りたいのかなあ。	That elephant seems so sad. I wonder if he wants to go back to Africa.
74	71	Animals	16	羆は狂暴だから近づいちゃだめだよ。	Bears can be horribly violent, so never get near one.
75	72	Animals	17	もし動物になれるならなにになりたい。	If you could become an animal, what would you be?
76	73	Animals	18	鯨のおなかに入ってみたい。	I'd like to see what it's like in the stomach of a whale.
77	74	Animals	19	この前公園で捨てシャムネコを見たよ。	I recently saw an abandoned Siamese cat in the park.
78	75	Animals	20	君を動物にたとえると孔雀だな。	If I were to compare you to an animal, it would be a peacock.
79	76	Animals	21	動物保護を広く訴えていきましょう。	We need to advocate widely for animal rights.
80	77	Animals	22	動物虐待は本当に許せない。	Cruelty to animals really is unforgivable.
81	78	Animals	23	人間だって動物だよ。	People are animals, too.
82	79	Animals	24	動物の言葉が理解できればいいのになあ。	It sure would be great to be able to talk to animals.
83	80	Animals	25	きみの奥さんはたいへんな愛犬家なんだって？	You say your wife is a real dog lover?
84	81	Animals	26	ペットショップで子犬の首輪を買ってきたよ。	I bought a collar for my puppy at a pet shop.
85	82	Animals	27	あの家の犬は、品評会で優勝したんだって。	That family's dog won top prize at a dog show.
86	83	Animals	28	犬にお座りやお手を仕込むのには根気がいる。	It takes a lot of patience to teach dogs to sit up and shake hands.
87	84	Animals	29	うちの犬は吠えたり人を噛んだりしません。	Our dog doesn't bark or bite people.
88	85	Animals	30	猫にエサと水をやっておいてね。	Feed the dog and cat, all right?
89	86	Animals	31	今度は毛がふさふさした猫を飼いたいなあ。	I want to raise/keep a cat with a thick, fluffy coat.
90	87	Animals	32	猫が家の柱で爪を研ぐので困っています。	My cat uses the pillar of our house as a scratching post. I don't know what to do about it.
91	88	Animals	33	実は猫アレルギーなんだよ。くしゃみが止まらないや。	Actually, I'm allergic to cats. I can't stop sneezing.
92	89	Animals	34	このインコは人の声を真似するのがうまいなあ。	This parrot is good at imitating human voices.
93	90	Animals	35	鳥かごが糞で汚れているから洗わなきゃ。	I've got to clean out the birdcage. It's full of droppings.
94	91	Animals	36	ハムスターの寿命ってどのくらいなんですか？	How long is a hamster's life span?
95	92	Animals	37	動物病院でフェレットも診てくれるかな。	Will the vet/veterinarian give my ferret a check-up?
96	93	Animals	38	牛のひづめがどんな形だか知ってる？	Do you know what shape a cow's hoof is?
97	94	Animals	39	ライオンのたてがみは実に迫力がある。	A lion's mane really is impressive.
98	95	Animals	40	イルカはとても高度な知能をもっています。	Dolphins are extremely intelligent.
99	96	Arguments	1	あなたとは口もききたくないの。	I don't want to hear another word out of you.
100	97	Arguments	2	あいつとはもう絶交だ。	I'm cutting him loose. / I've written the guy off.