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Military discipline is literally rigid.
軍隊の規律は文字通り厳しいものだ。
Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
今期、我が社の黒字はほぼ10%増加した。
It's a good paper, apart from a few spelling mistakes.
つづり字の間違いが少しあることを除いてはそれはよい論文だ。
It's difficult to read kanji.
漢字を読むのは難しいです。
Tom's handwriting isn't very good, but it's easy to read.
トムの字ってうまくはないけど読みやすいよね。
Can you read this kanji?
君はこの漢字が読めますか。
Tom can't read yet.
トムはまだ字が読めない。
There is no end in sight to the U.S. trade deficit with Japan.
アメリカの対日貿易赤字は解決の見通しがありません。
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。
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。
I can't read small letters.
小さい文字が読めない。
Sentences begin with a capital letter.
文は大文字で始まる。
He can read pretty well.
彼は十分字が読める。
In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.
多くの言語で辞書形の語尾が決まっており、日本語ではう段の文字で終わる。
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。
My father is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
僕の父は、いわば生き字引だ。
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。
Our family budget is in the red.
我が家の家計は赤字だ。
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.
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。
Thank to a fundamental restructuring, our surplus has swelled threefold.
抜本的に事業の再構築を行ったおかげで、当社の黒字は3倍に膨らんだ。
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
4は日本語では縁起の悪い数字だ。
The Red Cross supplied the hospital with blood.
赤十字は病院に血液を供給した。
Japan's balance of payments has been running a huge surplus for many years.
日本の国際収支は長年巨額の黒字を続けている。
We are in the black this month.
今月は黒字である。
I can't memorize so many of these letters.
これらたくさんの文字を暗記できない。
That publishing company is in the black.
あの出版社は黒字だ。
We had to sell the building because for years we operated it in the red.
長年の間赤字でその建物を経営したので売らねばならなかった。
The ABC company is in the red again.
ABC会社はまた赤字だ。
The letters ASEAN stand for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEANという文字は東南アジア諸国連合を表します。
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。
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。
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.