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How do you spell your family name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
She is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
彼女はいわゆる生き字引だ。
He can read pretty well.
彼は十分字が読める。
What is difficult about Japanese is how characters are used in its writing system.
日本語の難しい点は文字を使った表記の仕方です。
You should not look down on her just because she writes a poor hand.
字が下手というだけで彼女の事を軽蔑するべきではない。
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
4は日本では不吉な数字だ。
Written words, carrier pigeons, the telegraph, and many other devices carried ideas faster and faster from man to man.
文字、伝書鳩、電信、その他多くの方法で、情報はますます速く人から人へと伝えられるようになった。
His writing is impossible to read.
彼の字を読むことは不可能だ。
He lay on the mat at full length.
彼は畳の上に大の字になった。
You write very neatly, don't you?
君は字がうまいね。
How do you spell your surname?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
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
You haven't mentioned cost, and I won't sign until I know the bottom line.
あなたはコストについて何も言っていないが、それをはっきり数字で確認するまではサインはできません。
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.
To get the nation's economy out of the red, more foreign aid had to be pumped in.
その国の財政の赤字をなくすには、もっと、たくさんの外国の援助を注ぎ込まなければならなかった。
Put the two sticks across each other.
二本の棒を十文字に置きなさい。
The figure indicates approximately two thirds of the freshmen are indifferent to politics.
その数字は新入生の約3分の2が政治に無関心であることを示している。
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。
When we came to the crossroads our cab slowed down.
その十字路に着いた時タクシーはスピードを落とした。
The company was in the red and went under.
会社は赤字経営で倒産した。
What do the letters P.S. stand for?
P.S.という文字は何を表していますか。
How do you read this kanji?
この漢字は何と読みますか。
I can't read handwritten script, so could you please write it in printed script?
くずし字は読めませんので、楷書で書いていただけませんか?
We tried to make out the letters written on the wall.
壁に書かれた文字を判読しようとした。
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。
He lay at full length on the grass.
彼はその芝生に大の字になって寝そべった。
She has very nice-looking handwriting.
彼女は素晴らしい字を書く。
I can't memorize so many of these letters.
そんなにたくさんの文字を記憶できません。
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.