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He is a man of great knowledge, that is to say, a walking dictionary.
彼はすごい知識を持った人です。すなわち、生き字引です。
When drawing kanji be careful of dots and sweeps, write as carefully and quickly as possible.
漢字を書くときは点やはらいに気をつけて、なるべく早くていねいに書きましょう。
Please add up the numbers.
数字を合計して下さい。
My surname is Zhou.
私の苗字は周と言います。
The poor dog was literally torn apart by the lion.
かわいそうにその犬は文字通りライオンに引き裂かれてしまった。
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。
A further reduction would make us go into the red.
これ以上の値引きは、私どもを赤字に追いやるでしょう。
The government is running its largest deficit ever.
政府は史上最大の赤字をかかえています。
These figures don't add up.
それらの数字は、合計があわない。
The country is trying hard to make up for her trade deficit.
その国は貿易上の赤字の穴埋めに懸命である。
He explained the literal meaning of the sentence.
彼はその文章の文字どおりの意味を説明した。
Tom, your handwriting isn't very good, but it's easy to read.
トムの字ってうまくはないけど読みやすいよね。
You had better not use those four-letter words.
そういう四文字言葉は使わないほうがいい。
Your handwriting is similar to mine.
あなたの書く字は私に似ている。
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。
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。
That kanji is so complex, I can't read it.
そんな漢字は僕が読めないほどたいへん複雑なんだ。
We have a kanji dictation test today.
今日は漢字の書き取りがある。
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。
Military discipline is literally rigid.
軍隊の規律は文字通り厳しいものだ。
The Red Cross supplied the hospital with blood.
赤十字は病院に血液を供給した。
His handwriting is poor.
彼は字が下手だ。
The number of *****s in the hint has no relation to the number of characters in the word.
ヒントの ***** の数と語の中の字数とは関係がありません。
He can read well enough.
彼は十分字が読める。
He crossed himself.
彼は十字を切った。
You write a very good hand.
君は字がうまいね。
Tom has a good head for numbers.
トムは数字に強い。
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
刑事はその事件について文字どおり何千もの人たちに尋問した。
Lady Gaga gave $1 million to the Red Cross to help the victims of hurricane Sandy.
レディ・ガガはハリケーン・サンディの被災者救済のため、赤十字に百万ドルを寄付した。
The sign "&" stands for "and".
＆のマークはａｎｄの文字を表す。
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.
Be more careful. You often leave out some letter or other.
注意しなさい。君はよく何かの文字を抜かすよ。
Japan's trade surplus soared to a record high.
日本の貿易黒字は史上最高を記録しました。
The first word of every sentence should be capitalized.
文の最初の語はすべて大文字ではじめなければならない。
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。
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 talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.
有能な大蔵大臣の創意になる処置は、行き詰まった国の財政から赤字をなくすのに役立った。
The Southern Cross is not to be seen in Japan.
南十字星は日本では見ることができない。
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
