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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。
Clever as he is, he still cannot solve this math problem.
彼は賢いけれど、まだこの数字の問題が解けない。
The lovers engraved the oak tree with their initials.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.
多くの言語で辞書形の語尾が決まっており、日本語ではう段の文字で終わる。
How do you spell your family name?
あなたの名字はどうつづるのですか。
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。
The deficit has been diminishing little by little.
赤字は徐々に減少している。
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。
A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.
文の初めには大文字が用いられる。
Tom has a good head for numbers.
トムは数字に強い。
I can't read handwritten script, so could you please write it in printed script?
くずし字は読めませんので、楷書で書いていただけませんか?
Kanji are difficult to read.
漢字は読むのが難しい。
How do you spell your surname?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
Do you know whose handwriting this is?
これ誰の字か分かる?
The future of our company is at stake. We have been heavily in the red for the last couple of years.
我が社の未来は危険にさらされている。この2年間はひどい赤字状態だ。
The couples carved their initials in oak trees.
恋人たちは自分たちの頭文字をかしの木に刻んだ。
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
文を書くときには、ふつう大文字で始め、ピリオド(.)、または感嘆符(!)、疑問符(?)、で終わる。
How is your surname written?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
They were deep in the red and closed up shop.
ひどい赤字だったので彼らは店をたたんだ。
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.