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She writes much better now than she used to.
彼女は以前よりずっと上手に字を書く。
He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
彼は、いわば、生き字引だ。
A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.
文頭には大文字が使われる。
He is quick to find fault with the student's penmanship.
彼はその生徒の字の書き方のあらを探すがはやい。
A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.
巨大な連邦財政赤字がアメリカ経済を長年に渡って苦しめている。
What does this stand for?
何の略字ですか。
His handwriting is poor.
彼は字が下手だ。
Mr Johnson is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
ジョンソンさんはまるで生き字引です。
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version
The first word of every sentence should be capitalized.
文の最初の語はすべて大文字ではじめなければならない。
He is called a walking dictionary.
彼は生き字引と呼ばれている。
His handwriting is bad.
彼は字が下手だ。
I can't read Arabic script.
アラビア文字は読めません。
The couple carved their initials into the oak tree.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
Tom asked Mary what her last name was.
トムはメアリーに苗字を訊いた。
A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient, as the name suggests, is for delivering a bag of printed matter.
同一差出人から同一受取人に宛てて郵袋という、文字通り袋に印刷物を入れて郵送します。
The Red Cross distributed food to the refugees.
赤十字は難民たちに食糧を配った。
She wrote the date in numeric form.
彼女は日付を数字で書いた。
Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
今期、我が社の黒字はほぼ１０％増加した。
I took care to make the letters large and be generous with character and line spacing in order for it to be easy to read for the elderly and those who have problems with their sight.
As their language had no written form, the natives expressed deeds and events in carvings.
彼らの言葉には文字がなかったので、原住民は彫り物によって行いや出来事を表現したのである。
Write your name in capital letters.
大文字でお名前を書いて。
They were deep in the red and closed up shop.
ひどい赤字だったので彼らは店をたたんだ。
Do you know whose handwriting this is?
これ誰の字か分かる？
The alphabet consists of 26 letters.
アルファベットは２６文字で成り立っています。
What is this letter?
これはなんの文字ですか。
In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.
このような苦しい時には、並たいていのことでは、会社の赤字をなくすことはできない。
Our household expense got into the red last month.
私たちの家計費は先月赤字になった。
What does this kanji mean?
この漢字はどういう意味ですか。
May eighth is World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.
5月8日は世界赤十字デーです。
She has good handwriting.
彼女は字が上手だ。
She made a lot of spelling mistakes.
彼女はたくさんのつづり字の誤りをした。
Can he write this character?
彼はこの文字が書けますか。
The nun prayed and crossed herself.
尼僧はお祈りをして十字を切った。
Please read the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
How do you spell your surname?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
The figure will be astronomical.
数字は天文学的なものだろう。
The accountant will go into these figures.
会計係はこれらの数字を調べるだろう。
I am awkward with numbers.
私は、数字を操るのがへたです。
Add up this column of figures.
この数字の列を合計しなさい。
He managed to make both ends meet.
彼はどうにか赤字を出さずにすんだ。
Don't be lazy, use the kanji you've been taught.
横着しないで、教わった漢字を使いなさい。
The Japanese and Chinese pronunciation for kanji is very different, isn't it?
日本語と中国語の漢字の発音はとても違いますね。
Eliminating the deficit will be a hard nut to crack.
赤字を解消するのは大変な難問題です。
The girl writes a good hand though she is still only ten.
少女はまだ１０歳だというのに字がうまい。
While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.
We don't have time to finish checking the figures now, but we can go over them after lunch.
今はその数字が正しいかを調べる時間がありませんが、昼食後には調べることができます。
Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it sets a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.
