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This ought to bring in enough money to put us back in the black.
これで赤字が解消されるんではないでしょうか。
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。
How do you read this kanji?
この漢字は何と読みますか。
The Red Cross dispensed food and medical supplies to the victims.
赤十字は被災者に食料と医療を分配した。
What is this the abbreviation for?
何の略字ですか。
As their language had no written form, the natives expressed deeds and events in carvings.
彼らの言葉には文字がなかったので、原住民は彫り物によって行いや出来事を表現したのである。
He is literally stupid.
彼は文字どおりの馬鹿だ。
She made a lot of spelling mistakes.
彼女はたくさんのつづり字の誤りをした。
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.
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。
Tom is left-handed, but he writes with his right hand.
トムは左利きだが、字を書くときは右手だ。
How is your family name written?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
We take part in Red Cross movement.
私たちは赤十字運動に参加する。
Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
今期、我が社の黒字はほぼ10%増加した。
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。
She did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.
彼女は赤十字のために自発的な労働をたくさんした。
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