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That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
その老人は言わば生き字引だ。
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。
A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.
文頭には大文字が使われる。
In addition to classifying the data, the machine also checks the figures.
その機械はデータを分類するだけでなく、数字もチェックする。
Don't be lazy, use the kanji you've been taught.
横着しないで、教わった漢字を使いなさい。
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。
Don't take that too literally.
それをあまり文字どおりに受け取るな。
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 Southern Cross is not to be seen in Japan.
南十字星は日本では見ることができない。
The company is losing money heavily.
その会社は巨額の赤字を出している。
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。
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。
Add up these figures.
これらの数字を合計しなさい。
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。
In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.
6世紀にアングロ・サクソン族はローマ文字を採用した。
The couples carved their initials in oak trees.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
The deficit has been diminishing little by little.
赤字は徐々に減少している。
What do the initials NTT stand for?
頭文字のNTTは何を表していますか。
Read the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
A budget deficit will occur because of a revenue shortfall.
赤字が発生するのは歳入不足の結果です。
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.
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.
Reducing the budget deficit is a major concern of the government.
財政赤字の削減が政府の大きな関心事である。
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。
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
He explained the literal meaning of the sentences.
彼はその文章の文字どおりの意味を説明した。
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.