街で出会った言葉

人工透析してます：Artificial dialysis is available.→Artificial Dialysis Available 　
夜間透析もできます：Dialysis in the night time also would be possible(available). The night-time dialysis also would be possible(available).→The Night-Time Dialysis Possible
道路凹凸：There is a bumpy place ahead.→Bumpy Ahead
50M先工事：There is a construction work site 50 meters ahead.→Construction 50M Ahead
工事中につき左に寄ってください：Keep left for a construction work.→Keep Left for Construction
車の通り抜けはできません：Automobiles can not pass through the road.禁止の場合はAutomobiles are not allowed to pass here.→Automobiles Not to Pass Here
出口専用：Here is only for the exit.→Only for Exit　と思ったが、英語の実際例ではonly の使い方でよくあるのはHere is for the exit only.→For Exit Only
信号が青になってからわたりましょう　交通弱者用押しボタン：Press button for the traffic-handicapped. Walk the zebra crossing when the traffic signal has changed to green.→Press Button for Handicapped Walk Crossing When Signal Green
山田小児科：Yamada Pediatrics Clinic

from today's Nikkei

サービス値下げの波　縮む市場、消費を刺激　海外旅行１５％、ホテル８％
美容室・学習塾など半額も

Many of service-providing companies are reducing their prices now.Specifically,some of major travel agents,such as JTB Corporation,have reduced their oversea travel prices in the period from April to September by 15%,and some of major hotel operators like Prince Hotels,Inc. have reduced their prices for a room by 4-8%.These movements are all aimed at preventing their customers from going away,amid the condition that the contraction of the market is going on due to population's declining and smaller number of foreign tourists coming to Japan.In preparatory schools and beauty parlors also,they have started to reduce their service charges.Some of them are likely to reduce their charges to half.
Until now, the price decling has been proceeding in the areas of consumer goods like food and household appliances,physical distribution and temporary worker dispatching. The movement this time is for the services for individuals.In these circumstances,this would be a double-edged sword because this will be the factor of squeezing profits for many service-providing firms while surely stimulating customers' consumption.