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as if, practically
he orders me around as if I were his servant

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まるでさるのようなかおだ

A face just like a monkey's

これはまるでせんそうだ。

This is practically a war

まるでいきているようだ

Seems like it is alive.

まるでついきのうのことのようにはっきりとあのできごとをおぼえている。

I remember the event as vividly as if it was just yesterday.

まるでなんでもしっているようなくちぶりだね。

You talk as if you knew everything.

まるでひとりでわらっているみたいだ。

She looks as if she's laughing to herself.

まるでボスのようなはなしかたをする。

You talk as if you were the boss.

まるでワインでくちのすべりがよくなったように。

Flowing more freely than wine.

まるであくまにでもおいかけられてるみたいだ。

You'd think Old Nick was after him.

かのじょはまるでいちにんでわらってるみたいだ。

She looks as if she's laughing to herself.

まるであめがふりだしそうにみえる。

It looks as if it were going to rain.

まるでかせきみたいなにんげんだわ。

He is a living fossil! [F]

まるでかくめいぜんやのようなさわぎだった。

It looked as if we were on the eve of a revolution.

まるでそらぜんたいがもえているようである。

It is as if the whole sky were on fire.

まるできみはぼくのかがみみたいだ。

You're the only mirror for me. [M]

まるでげつめんをあるいているみたい。

Walking on the moon.

まるではれものにさわるようにあつかった。

He treated it with utmost care.

かのじょはまるでよっているようだ。

She looks as if she were drunk.

まるでたいようがしずんでしまったかのようにそらはくらくなった。

The sky became as dark as if the sun had sunk.

まるであたまのようなはなしかたをする。

You talk as if you were the boss.

まるでかれのてにふれるものはみんなきんにかわるみたいだ。

It seems as if everything he touches turns to gold.

まるでゆめをみているかきぶんだった。

I felt as if I were dreaming.

ぼくはまるでゆめをみているようだ。

I felt as if I were in a dream.（M)

ケンはまるでなにでもしっているかのようにはなす。

Ken talks as if he knew everything.

はまるでゆうれいでもみたようなかおをしている。

Jody looks as if she had seen a ghost.

ジョンがもどってきたとき、かれはまるでゆうれいでもみたようにあおじろいかおつきだった。

When John came back, he looked pale as if he had seen a ghost.

ジョンソンさんはまるでいきじびきです。

Mr Johnson is, as it were , a walking dictionary.

ティムはまるでひだりききのようなかきかたをする。

Tim writes as if he were left-handed.

ハムレットはまるできがくるったかのようにふるまう。

Hamlet acts as if he were insane.

はアメリカじんであるが、かれはまるでじぶんのぼこくごであるかのようににほんごをはなせる。

Brent is an American, but he speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.

はまるでなにでもしっているみたいにはなす。

Betty talks as if she knew everything.

ライトさんは、まるでぼこくごのようににほんごをはなします。

Mr Wright speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.

えいごはまるでうみのようにわたしたちをとりかこんでいる。

The English language surrounds us like a sea.

われわれはやまみちをまるでアリがはうようにすすんだ。

We crawled like ants along the mountain pass.

きみはまるでなにもおこらなかったようなかおをしている。

You look as though nothing had happened to you.

きみはまるでなにもおこらなかったようなかおをしているね。

You look as though nothing had happened to you.

きみはまるでひとごとみたいなかおをしているね。

You look as if it were none of your business.

ぐんしゅうがまるでハエのようにそのくるまのまわりにあつまった。

The crowd gathered round the car like flies.

まださんがつのはじめなのにとてもあつい。まるでなつになったかのようだ。

Even if we are at the beginning of March, the weather is very hot. It is as if summer had come yet.

このみずうみはみずがきれいで、まるでとうめいなガラスのようだ。

As the water is clean, this lake look as transparent as if it were glass.

かれはまるでおさけをのんだようなかおをしています。

His face looks as if he had drunk alcohol.

(MARUDE) is more often than not used in conjunction with "no you na..." "no you da."

larry

marude can also mean completely or entirely, as in "I have forgotten about it completely"

dc

There is no entry for さっぱり yet...

Miki

For 'completely forgotten' see さっぱり

Amatuka

#4101 ジョン?? 文字化け for me

Miki

#4102 and #4103 are almost the same.

Miki

#4095, #4105, #4106, #4114, #4115, #4116, These まるで are different as dc mentioned in comments.
まるで followed by ない neg or 違う.
#4111, #4113 part of 始まるでしょうか。

Miki

i added a [marude-2] but there isnt an easy way to shift the examples over. hang on while we build it...

dc

Miki, DC - I went ahead and moved the examples to [marude-2] and deleted the 始まるでしょう examples as those changes are easy to make now. Feel free to delete all these comments since they are no longer relevant...

yookoso

I changed
Ex #4079 which were almost the same than #4078,
Ex #4102 which were almost the same than #4103, and
Ex #4117 which were almost the same than #4118,
but there is a lot of repeated examples left.

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