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The sign "&" stands for "and".
&のマークはandの文字を表す。
To get the nation's economy out of the red, more foreign aid had to be pumped in.
その国の財政の赤字をなくすには、もっと、たくさんの外国の援助を注ぎ込まなければならなかった。
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。
She contributed to the Red Cross.
彼女は赤十字に寄付した。
His handwriting is poor.
彼は字が下手だ。
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。
Add up this column of figures.
この数字の列を合計しなさい。
We must guard against mistakes in spelling.
われわれはつづり字の間違いに注意しなければならない。
That kanji is so complex, I can't read it.
そんな漢字は僕が読めないほどたいへん複雑なんだ。
Tom has a good head for numbers.
トムは数字に強い。
Can he write this character?
彼はこの文字が書けますか。
I can't memorize so many of these letters.
こんなにたくさんの文字を暗記できません。
He lay on the mat at full length.
彼は畳の上に大の字になった。
How many grade four kanji have you memorised?
4級の漢字をどれだけ覚えていますか。
This week I've watched foreign car-action movies with subtitles for three days in a row.
今週、3日連続でカーアクションものの外国映画を字幕で見た。
The company is in deficit.
会社が赤字になる。
Hit up on the D-pad, and the background music will change as the background itself becomes the Demon King's castle....
十字キーを上へ!するとBGMが変わり、背景は魔王の居城へ・・・。
What do the initials NTT stand for?
頭文字のNTTは何を表していますか。
Please read the numbers on the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
Please read the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
You'll strain your eyes trying to read in this light.
この明かりで字を読もうとすれば目を痛めるよ。
Please send reports of mistypings and mistranslations to the email address below.
誤字・誤訳のご指摘等は下記メールアドレスよりお寄せください。
His writing is impossible to read.
彼の字を読むことは不可能だ。
This figure is a mirror of the decrease in imports of crude oil.
この数字は原油輸入減を反映している。
How is your surname written?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
Seven is believed to be a lucky number.
7は幸運の数字だと信じられている。
She has very neat handwriting.
彼女は字がとても上手だ。
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
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。
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。
My surname is Zhou.
私の苗字は周と言います。
Alpha, beta and gamma are Greek letters.
アルファ、ベータ、ガンマはギリシャ文字です。
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.