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Your essay has some mistakes, but as a whole it is very good.
君の作文にはいくつか間違いがあるが、全体としてみると、非常によくできているよ。
Your composition is very good, and it has few mistakes.
君の作文はたいへんよくできていて、ほとんど間違いない。
She lives by her pen.
彼女は文筆で生活を立てている。
I'll mark where there are mistakes in your writing.
きみの作文のまちがっているところにしるしをつけてあげよう。
Your composition has a few mistakes.
君の作文には、間違いが2、3あります。
Translate the following sentences into Japanese.
次の文を日本語に訳しなさい。
Taro ordered some English conversation textbooks from London.
太郎は何冊かの英会話テキストをロンドンに注文した。
His paper is superior to mine.
彼の論文は私の論文より優れている。
Why doesn't anybody translate my sentences?
どうして誰も私の文を訳してくれないのですか?
Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
君たちの文を黒板の文と比較しなさい。
Will you please explain the meaning of this sentence to me?
この文の意味を私に教えてくれませんか。
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
朝起きは三文の徳。
Culture is handed down from generation to generation.
文化は世代から世代へと伝えられる。
He went to Italy with a view to studying literature.
彼は文学を勉強するつもりでイタリアに行った。
Written words, carrier pigeons, the telegraph, and many other devices carried ideas faster and faster from man to man.
文字、伝書鳩、電信、その他多くの方法で、情報はますます速く人から人へと伝えられるようになった。
We ordered some new books from abroad.
私たちは、新しい本を何冊か海外に注文した。
Civilization is now threatened by nuclear war.
文明は今や核戦争に脅かされている。
It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
Your English composition leaves nothing to be desired.
君の英作文は、申し分ない。
Many cultures, many stories, and pretty girls.
いろんな文化があって、たくさんの物語があって、可愛い女の子もいる。
He is an expert in astronomy.
彼は天文学の専門家だ。
The facts are buried in a few old books.
その事実は古い文献のいくつかに見出される。
I took it in a literal sense.
私はそれを文字どおりのいみにとった。
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.
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