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Kanji 稿, meaning draft, appears in 33 Japanese example sentences with translation.
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原稿用紙１枚にも満たないメールに２時間かけるなんていうのは褒められたことではない。能力のなさを示していると言った方が当たっているだろうね。
Spending two hours writing an email that won't even take up one page of a sheet of paper is not something you can write home about. It's more like you're writing about your own inability to write coherently.
トムの学校では、タトエバが大流行して学業に支障が出ているため、緊急職員会議が開かれて、生徒の例文の投稿は一日30文までとする措置が取られることになったが、学校側で生徒のアカウントを把握しきれていないこともあり、対策は難航している。
At Tom's school, the Tatoeba craze has become so widespread that it's affecting students' studies. As a result, an emergency staff meeting was held and it was decided to limit students to submitting no more than 30 example sentences per day. However, since the school hasn't fully tracked the students' accounts, implementing this measure has proven challenging.
「『青木まりこ現象』って知ってる？」「何それ？」「本屋さんに入ったらトイレに行きたくなるって言うやつ。それを投稿した人の名前をとって『青木まりこ現象』っていうんだって」「なるほど。まぁ、言う側は、ダイレクトに言うよりいいけど、全国の『青木まりこ』さんはどう思ってるのかしら」
"Have you heard of the Mariko Aoki phenomenon?" "What's that?" "It's when you feel the urge to go to the toilet after you enter a bookstore. It's named after the person who first wrote about it." "Well then, it's a lot better than having to say it directly, but I wonder what Mariko Aoki thinks of it."