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The ABC company is in the red again.
ＡＢＣ会社はまた赤字だ。
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 letters STEP stand for the Society for Testing English Proficiency.
ＳＴＥＰという文字は日本英語検定協会を表している。
Write the amount on the check in letters as well as figures.
小切手の金額は数字と文字の両方で書いて下さい。
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。
These figures don't add up.
それらの数字は、合計があわない。
You are too much letter-bound.
君はあまり字句に拘泥しすぎるよ。
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 deficit has been diminishing little by little.
赤字は徐々に減少している。
I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
私はおろかにもその慣用語句を文字通りの意味で解釈してしまった。
The talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.
有能な大蔵大臣の創意になる処置は、行き詰まった国の財政から赤字をなくすのに役立った。
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。
He is literally stupid.
彼は文字どおりの馬鹿だ。
Write your name in capital letters.
大文字でお名前を書いて。
Our teacher is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
私たちの先生は、いわば、生き字引だ。
His handwriting is bad.
彼は字が下手だ。
May eighth is World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.
5月8日は世界赤十字デーです。
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.
Your composition was good except for the spelling.
君の作文は綴り字以外はよく書けていた。
How many grade four kanji have you memorised?
４級の漢字をどれだけ覚えていますか。
Can you read this kanji?
君はこの漢字が読めますか。
The Arabic script was replaced by the Roman alphabet.
アラビア文字はローマ式アルファベットにとって変わられた。
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。
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
文を書くときには、ふつう大文字で始め、ピリオド（.）、または感嘆符（!）、疑問符（?）、で終わる。
He is a man of great knowledge, that is to say, a walking dictionary.
彼はすごい知識を持った人です。すなわち、生き字引です。
How do you read this kanji?
この漢字の読みかたは何でしょうか。
What do the letters WHO stand for?
ＷＨＯと言う文字は何の略字ですか。
The sign "&" stands for "and".
＆のマークはａｎｄの文字を表す。
Put the two sticks across each other.
二本の棒を十文字に置きなさい。
The business is in the red.
商売は赤字だ。
Since he can read such tiny print, he is far from being near-sighted.
彼はあんな小さい字が読めるのだから近視どころではない。
Have you ever subscribed to any English language newspaper?
あなたは英字新聞を定期購読したことがありますか。
He is called a walking dictionary.
彼は生き字引と呼ばれている。
My mother has good handwriting.
私の母は字がきれいだ。
She has very neat handwriting.
彼女は字がとても上手だ。
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。
The company is losing money heavily.
その会社は巨額の赤字を出している。
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。
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
