彼はいやなことから逃れるためにいつでも酒に頼る。 - Japanese example sentence

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GaryM January 14, 2012 January 14, 2012 at 11:56:06 PM UTC

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"いやなこと" simply means things that you don't like, or things that disturb you. You would probably just say "worries" or "troubles" in english. Someone "turning to drink" often has the connotation of someone having become an alchoholic, in which case it is a one-off event. In the Japanese we also have "頼る" which means to rely on, thus this translation rather than use "turn to drink". In English "drink" in the expression above could just as easily be replaced with "alchohol" without significantly changing the meaning.