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They were deep in the red and closed up shop.
ひどい赤字だったので彼らは店をたたんだ。
I took what she said literally.
私は彼女の言うことを文字どおりに受け取った。
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 lovers engraved the oak tree with their initials.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
"Let's see, you're ... er, um ... M-" "You're wrong from the first letter!!"
「あなたはたしか・・・えーと、えーと・・・も」「頭文字から間違っとるわい!!」
The business is in the red.
商売は赤字だ。
He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
彼は、いわば、生き字引だ。
How do you spell your surname?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
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?
That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
その老人は言わば生き字引だ。
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。
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?
For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.
メッセージがなぜか文字化けしていたので、修復して読みました。
The loss reached three million yen.
赤字が300万円に達した。
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。
Do you understand Roman numerals?
ローマ数字わかる?
The company was in the red and went under.
会社は赤字経営で倒産した。
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。
Watanabe is my family name.
渡辺が名字です。
He is literally stupid.
彼は文字どおりの馬鹿だ。
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.
I'm having trouble reading the letters on the monitor.
私はモニターの文字を読む事が困難です。
You must begin a sentence with a capital letter.
文章は大文字で書き始めなくてはならない。
Don't take that too literally.
それをあまり文字どおりに受け取るな。
NOTE: Typo corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
※誤字直しました。ご指摘サンクスです。
In the English language many words contain letters which are not pronounced.
英語では多くの単語が発音しない文字を含んでいる。
Secondly, the literacy rate in Europe of that time was low.
第二に、当時のヨーロッパの識字率が低かったことだ。
What is difficult about Japanese is how characters are used in its writing system.
日本語の難しい点は文字を使った表記の仕方です。
I accommodate statistics to theory.
統計の数字を理論とつじつまの合うように変える。
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。
It is as if he is carrying his cross all by himself.
彼は一人で十字架を背負っているような物だな。
The ABC company is in the red again.
ABC会社はまた赤字だ。
The English alphabet has 26 letters.
英語のアルファベットは26文字だ。
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.