よほど重要な用向きでやってきたことが、彼の顔色で分かった。

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English Translation

I could tell by the look on his face that he had come on very important business.

Furigana

よほど重要(じゅうよう)な用向(ようむ)きでやってきたことが、彼(かれ)の顔色(かおいろ)で分(わ)かった。

Romanji

Yohodo jūyōna yōmuki de yattekita koto ga, kare no kaoiro de wakatta.

Words

余っ程 (よっぽど、よほど)

very; greatly; much; to a large extent; quite; just about to

重要 (じゅうよう)

important; momentous; essential; principal; major

用向き (ようむき)

errand; one's business

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

やって来る (やってくる)

to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

顔色 (かおいろ、がんしょく)

complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out