He decided to play it safe and pull out of the tournament due to his injured knee.tatoeba
彼はまもなく親の膝元を離れる。
He leaves the parental roof soon.tatoeba
Real voices: how native speakers say it
These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
朝主人が新聞を読むときは必ず彼の膝の上に乗る
あさしゅじんがしんぶんをよむときはかならずかれのひざのうえにのるWhen my husband reads the newspaper in the morning, I always get on his lap.
膝を落としてベンチの裏側に顔を近づける。よく目を凝らす。
ひざをおとしてべんちのうらがわにかおをちかづける。よくめをこらす。I crouch down and bring my face close to the underside of the bench. I look closely.
膝詰めで苦しい現状を訴えかける
ひざづめでくるしいげんじょうをうったえかけるAppeal about the difficult current situation in a face-to-face meeting.