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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。
Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).
回答にはアンカーを必ずつけて下さい。半角で ">>"+数字(例: >>1)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.
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 can't read yet.
トムはまだ字が読めない。
Please read the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
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。
Watanabe is my family name.
渡辺が名字です。
What is difficult about Japanese is the writing system.
日本語の難しい点は文字を使った表記の仕方です。
Tom has memorised so many kanji that he can read books for primary school children.
トマさんは小学生向けの本が読めるぐらい漢字をたくさん覚えています。
The company is in deficit.
同社は赤字である。
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?
Add up these figures.
これらの数字を合計しなさい。
My surname is Wan.
私の苗字はワンです。
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。
The company has decided to sell some of its money-losing units.
同社は赤字の子会社のいくつかを売却することにした。
A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.
文頭には大文字が使われる。
He lay on the mat at full length.
彼は畳の上に大の字になった。
The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.
シュメール人が発明した楔形文字は、古代オリエントの様々な言語で使用された。
Despite a large surplus in merchandise trade, the current account surplus is not so big due to a deficit in invisible trade.
大幅な貿易黒字にもかかわらず、貿易収支外の赤字のために計上収支黒字はそれほど大きくない。
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.
The country is trying hard to make up for her trade deficit.
その国は貿易上の赤字の穴埋めに懸命である。
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。
These figures don't add up.
それらの数字は、合計があわない。
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