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He can read well.
彼は十分字が読める。
Sentences begin with a capital letter.
文は大文字で始まる。
The company has decided to sell some of its money-losing units.
同社は赤字の子会社のいくつかを売却することにした。
I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
私はおろかにもその慣用語句を文字通りの意味で解釈してしまった。
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.
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。
Churches are designated on the map with crosses.
教会は地図の上では十字架で表されている。
What do the letters WHO stand for?
WHOと言う文字は何の略字ですか。
The Red Cross gets help to disaster victims without delay.
赤十字は災害の被害者を直ちに救援する。
I took an English newspaper when I was in college.
大学時代に私は英字新聞をとっていた。
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。
She writes a very good hand.
彼女は字がすごくうまい。
Americans accumulated their trade deficits by living far beyond their means.
アメリカ人が貿易赤字を累積したのは、限度を超えたぜいたくをしたからですよ。
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。
There is need for improvement in your handwriting.
君は字をもっときれいに書く必要がある。
Write your name in capitals.
君の名前を大文字で書きなさい。
The couple carved their initials in an oak tree.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
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。
Tom has memorised so many kanji that he can read books for primary school children.
トマさんは小学生向けの本が読めるぐらい漢字をたくさん覚えています。
Mother is having trouble making ends meet.
母は、赤字を出さずに暮らしを立てるのに苦労しています。
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。
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