Computers will save you much time and energy when you deal with figures and graphs.
コンピューターを使えば数字やグラフを扱うときに多くの時間と労力が省ける。
Chinese characters are difficult to read.
漢字は読むのが難しい。
They contributed money to the Red Cross.
彼らは赤十字にお金を寄付した。
His handwriting is poor.
彼は字が下手だ。
The sign "&" stands for "and".
&のマークはandの文字を表す。
Compile an essay on that topic within a fixed number of letters.
それについて、決められた字数以内に作文を纏める。
These figures indicate three in five college first-year students are indifferent to politics.
これらの数字が示すのは、大学1年生の5人中3人が政治に無関心だということだ。
The refugees took shelter in a refugee camp from the Red-Cross.
避難民は赤十字の避難所に避難していた。
I deal in facts and figures, not vague impressions.
私の仕事で重要なのは具体的な事実や数字であってあいまいな印象ではない。
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。
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が悪くなるよ。
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。
I am awkward with numbers.
私は、数字を操るのがへたです。
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。
The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.
我が社の未来は危険にさらされている。この2年間はひどい赤字状態だ。
Write the amount on the check in letters as well as figures.
小切手の金額は数字と文字の両方で書いて下さい。
The government is running its largest deficit ever.
政府は史上最大の赤字をかかえています。
What's the spelling of your family name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
Oh? You can type without looking at the keyboard. That's cool!
へー、キーボード見ないで文字打てるんだ。スゴイわねー。
The company once again went into the red. It is beyond saving.
その会社はまた赤字になった。救いようがない。
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.
The figure indicates approximately two thirds of the freshmen are indifferent to politics.
その数字は新入生の約3分の2が政治に無関心であることを示している。
We're in the red this month. If we don't start spending less next month, we won't have any savings left.
今月は赤字だよ。来月から節約しないと貯金が底をついちゃうよ。
That publishing company is in the black.
あの出版社は黒字だ。
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.
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.
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。
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。
I took it in a literal sense.
私はそれを文字どおりのいみにとった。
We take part in Red Cross movement.
私たちは赤十字運動に参加する。
The English alphabet has 26 letters.
英語のアルファベットには26文字ある。
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.