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He can't write any kanji.
彼は漢字が全く書けない。
She has very neat handwriting.
彼女は字がとても上手だ。
Does anyone know Tom's family name?
誰かトムの名字知らない?
"Let's see, you're ... er, um ... M-" "You're wrong from the first letter!!"
「あなたはたしか・・・えーと、えーと・・・も」「頭文字から間違っとるわい!!」
Please send reports of mistypings and mistranslations to the email address below.
誤字・誤訳のご指摘等は下記メールアドレスよりお寄せください。
Please add up the numbers.
数字を合計して下さい。
The ABC company is in the red again.
ABC会社はまた赤字だ。
He explained the literal meaning of the sentence.
彼はその文章の文字どおりの意味を説明した。
A is the first letter of the alphabet.
Aはアルファベットの最初の文字だ。
I took it in a literal sense.
私はそれを文字どおりのいみにとった。
He managed to make both ends meet.
彼はどうにか赤字を出さずにすんだ。
Be more careful. You often leave out some letter or other.
注意しなさい。君はよく何かの文字を抜かすよ。
The initials USA stand for the United States of America.
USAと言う頭文字はアメリカ合衆国を意味する。
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
刑事はその事件について文字どおり何千もの人たちに尋問した。
A crossroads is where two roads meet in an X.
四つ角は二つの道が十字に交わった所である。
Write your name in capitals.
君の名前を大文字で書きなさい。
We're in the red this month. If we don't start spending less next month, we won't have any savings left.
今月は赤字だよ。来月から節約しないと貯金が底をついちゃうよ。
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.
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.