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The deficit has been diminishing little by little.
赤字は徐々に減少している。
The company stopped losing money.
あの会社は赤字を脱した。
The government is running its largest deficit ever.
政府は史上最大の赤字をかかえています。
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。
A budget deficit must be financed somehow.
赤字は何とか埋め合わせなければならない。
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
４は日本では不吉な数字だ。
The couple carved their initials in an oak tree.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
My uncle's handwriting is hard to read.
私の叔父の字は読みにくい。
You had better not use those four-letter words.
そういう四文字言葉は使わないほうがいい。
It is impossible to read her handwriting.
彼女の字は読めない。
She is well able to read.
彼女は十分字が読める。
He peered at the small print in a newspaper.
彼は新聞の小さな活字をじっとみた。
A further reduction would make us go into the red.
これ以上の値引きは、私どもを赤字に追いやるでしょう。
The number of *****s in the hint has no relation to the number of characters in the word.
ヒントの ***** の数と語の中の字数とは関係がありません。
Look up the word in the dictionary.
辞書のその文字をご覧。
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
When drawing kanji be careful of dots and sweeps, write as carefully and quickly as possible.
漢字を書くときは点やはらいに気をつけて、なるべく早くていねいに書きましょう。
How do you spell your last name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
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。
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。
Our teacher is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
私たちの先生は、いわば、生き字引だ。
Please let me know if you find any typos or missing words.
誤字脱字を見つけたら教えてください。
I could do nothing but stare stupidly at the printed page.
私は本に書かれた文字をぼうっと見ているだけだった。
How do you read this kanji?
この漢字の読みかたは何でしょうか。
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.
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.
A common way to finance a budget deficit is to issue bonds.
財政赤字の埋め合わせの一般的方法は債券発行です。
How do you spell your family name?
あなたの名字はどうつづるのですか。
Read the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
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。
What's your favorite number?
好きな数字は何ぁに？
Write your name in capitals.
名前を大文字で書いてください。
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 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。
That kanji is so complex, I can't read it.
そんな漢字は僕が読めないほどたいへん複雑なんだ。
My father is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
僕の父は、いわば生き字引だ。
Teach me some kanji, please.
漢字を少し教えてください。
Clever as he is, he still cannot solve this math problem.
彼は賢いけれど、まだこの数字の問題が解けない。
I am bit weak at figures.
ちょっと数字に弱いのです。
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。
The figure will be astronomical.
数字は天文学的なものだろう。
She has very neat handwriting.
彼女は字がとても上手だ。
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.
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.
