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He crossed himself.
彼は十字を切った。
Add up this column of figures.
この数字の列を合計しなさい。
Please read the numbers on the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient, as the name suggests, is for delivering a bag of printed matter.
同一差出人から同一受取人に宛てて郵袋という、文字通り袋に印刷物を入れて郵送します。
The girl writes a good hand though she is still only ten.
少女はまだ10歳だというのに字がうまい。
His writing is impossible to read.
彼の字を読むことは不可能だ。
Can he write this character?
彼はこの文字が書けますか。
Tom has a good head for numbers.
トムは数字に強い。
A crossroads is where two roads meet in an X.
四つ角は二つの道が十字に交わった所である。
The two roads cut across the street from us.
2本の道が十文字に交差している。
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
刑事は文字通り何千人もの人に事件についての聞き込みを行った。
The business is in the red.
商売は赤字だ。
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。
"Contrastingly, do you love Kanji?" he asked.
「漢字は愛してる?」と聞きました。
In this secret code, each number stands for a letter of the alphabet.
この秘密の暗号では、それぞれの数字がアルファベットの文字を表している。
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。
Eliminating the deficit will be a hard nut to crack.
赤字を解消するのは大変な難問題です。
The English alphabet has 26 letters.
英語のアルファベットは26文字だ。
How do you spell your surname?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
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?
Grandmother is bent double with age.
祖母は老齢で腰がくの字に曲がっている。
You write very neatly, don't you?
君は字がうまいね。
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
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。
The poor dog was literally torn apart by the lion.
かわいそうにその犬は文字通りライオンに引き裂かれてしまった。
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 write your last name?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
If there's a cheap kanji dictionary in Japan, I will buy it.
日本では安い漢字の辞書があれば、買います。
Chinese characters are difficult to read.
漢字は読むのが難しい。
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.
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.