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Sentences begin with a capital letter.
文は大文字で始まる。
A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.
巨大な連邦財政赤字がアメリカ経済を長年に渡って苦しめている。
The nun prayed and crossed herself.
尼僧はお祈りをして十字を切った。
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。
She has good handwriting.
彼女は字が上手だ。
Can he write this character?
彼はこの文字が書けますか。
How do you spell your last name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
He is a real fool.
彼は文字どおりのばかだ。
Mr Johnson is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
ジョンソンさんはまるで生き字引です。
This large type is easy on the eyes.
この大きな活字は眼に楽だ。
It's a good paper, apart from a few spelling mistakes.
つづり字の間違いが少しあることを除いてはそれはよい論文だ。
His writing is impossible to read.
彼の字を読むことは不可能だ。
She writes much better now than she used to.
彼女は以前よりずっと上手に字を書く。
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。
Does anyone know Tom's family name?
誰かトムの名字知らない?
We are in the black this month.
今月は黒字である。
A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.
文頭には大文字が使われる。
What is this letter?
これはなんの文字ですか。
I'm having trouble reading the letters on the monitor.
私はモニターの文字を読む事が困難です。
The Japanese and Chinese pronunciation for kanji is very different, isn't it?
日本語と中国語の漢字の発音はとても違いますね。
Watanabe is my family name.
渡辺が名字です。
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。
We tried to make out the letters written on the wall.
壁に書かれた文字を判読しようとした。
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。
What's your favorite number?
好きな数字は何ぁに?
He added up the figures.
彼はその数字を合計した。
The accountant will go into these figures.
会計係はこれらの数字を調べるだろう。
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.
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.