The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
Yuriko is planning to move into the furniture business.
百合子は家具業界への進出を企図している。
Scant difference.
五十歩百歩。
The balance at the bank stands at two million yen.
銀行に二百万円残っている。
There were hundreds of taxis at the airport, all touting for business.
空港には数百台のタクシーがいて、皆客引きしていた。
He had no more than one hundred yen with him.
彼は百円しか持ち合わせていなかった。
Hundreds of people called or wrote to the Gorilla Foundation.
何百という人々がゴリラ財団研究所へ電話や手紙を下さいました。
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand.
一百, 二百, 三百, 四百, 五百, 六百, 七百, 八百, 九百, 一千。
I built up some debts at the rice seller and at the greengrocer.
米屋や、八百屋に借金が出来て行った。
I owe him 100 yen.
私は彼から百円借りている。
Smoking does much harm but no good.
たばこは百害あって一利なし。
Millions of dollars have been spent trying to shore up the company.
その会社にてこ入れするために数百万ドルが使われた。
My son can count up to a hundred now.
うちの息子は百まで数えられる。
Losses will run into millions of dollars.
損害額は何百万ドルにも達するだろう。
Few people live to be 100 years old.
百歳まで生きる人はほとんどいません。
The Bible sells more than one million copies every year.
聖書は毎年百万部以上売れる。
Two hundred houses were burnt down in the fire which broke out yesterday.
昨日の火事で二百戸が全焼した。
We shot pheasants by the hundred.
何百羽とキジを撃った。
The ticket costs 100 euros.
切符は百ユーロです。
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government
This vending machine takes only hundred-yen coins.
この販売機は百円硬貨しか使えない。
If you had a million dollars, what would you do?
もし百万ドルあれば、どうしますか。
He lives as if he were a millionaire.
彼はまるで百万長者のように暮らしている。
I caught sight of hundreds of birds.
私は何百羽もの鳥を見つけた。
Cancer is not one but more than hundred distinct diseases.
ガンは一つの病気ではなく、百以上の別の病気の集まりである。
The man's statement to the pretty girl that he was a millionaire was all eye-wash.
その男が、自分は百万長者だとあのきれいな女の子にいったことはまるっきり眉唾だった。
An encyclopedia is a mine of information.
百科事典は知識の宝庫だ。
She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government