娘：今、熱帯魚を飼っているの。餌をやったり、フィルターの掃除をしたり、とても世話がやけるのよ。
母：それは楽しみね。今度見に行くわ。
Sewa ga yakeru
Musume: Ima, nettaigyo wo katte iru no. Esa wo yattari, firutaa no soji wo shitari, totemo sewa ga yakeru no yo.
Haha: Sore wa tanoshimi ne, kondo mi ni iku wa.
Daughter: I've started keeping tropical fish, but they take so much looking after, feeding them and cleaning their filter.
Mother: It sounds like fun. Ill have to go and see them one of these days.
Sewa ga yakeru is used to describe something that is a lot of trouble because it demands so much time and attention.
My eldest daughter recently told me that she had started keeping tropical fish. She explained how she has to keep the water clean at the right temperature, and think about what kind of plants to put in the tank.
Nettaigyo ga konna ni sewa no yakeru mono da to wa shiranakatta (I didn't realize taking care of tropical fish would be this much trouble) , she says.
At first, she was keeping three Angel Fish and three Neon Tetra.
"Neon Tetra live in the Amazon River, so they are used to a high water temperature, but the temperature was too high for the Angel fish so they all got sick and died," she told me.
Watashi no nettaigyo wa sewa ga yakete shoo ga nai (My tropical fish are so much trouble, I don't know what to do with them), she said at the time. Shigoto wo shinagara, yoku sewa wo yaku mono da (I was surprised that she could manage to go to all that trouble while working at the same time), and I admired her for it
One day she phoned me, sounding very excited. "The Neon Tetra laid 25 eggs today," she said. "Ill have to take care of the tank and make sure that they are all born. Ikura sewa ga yakete mo, Hawaii wa (However much trouble they may be, they're just so cute)."
To make sure that the filter does not get too dirty, she cleans it every two days. Watashi ni wa, sonna ni sewa ga yakeru mono wo kau yutori wa nai(I just wouldn't have the time to keep anything that demanded so much time and attention.) "
One day I visited my daughter, and was surprised to find that there were no tropical fish to be seen anywhere. "Where are the fish?" I asked her, and she showed me. She switched on her computer.
"Look," she said. "Oh, three baby Neon Tetra have been born. How cute. I wonder if I should put them in a separate tank? Sewa ga yakeru kedo, tanoshimi no hoo ga ooi no (They take a lot of looking after, but it is worth it for all the fun you can have)."
The tropical fish were swimming around inside the computer, as life-like as if they were really alive.