ときには、機械によって意識不明の人が何年間も呼吸し続けることもあります。

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English Translation

Sometimes machines can make an unconscious person breathe for years.

Furigana

ときには、機械(きかい)によって意識(いしき)不明(ふめい)の人(ひと)が何(なん)年間(ねんかん)も呼吸(こきゅう)し続(つづ)けることもあります。

Romanji

Tokiniha, kikai niyotte ishiki fumei no hito ga nan nenkan mo kokyūshitsuzukeru koto mo arimasu.

Words

時には (ときには)

at times; occasionally

機械 (きかい)

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

に因って (によって)

according to; by (means of); due to; because of

意識 (いしき)

consciousness; awareness; sense; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)

不明 (ふめい)

unknown; obscure; indistinct; uncertain; ambiguous; anonymous; unidentified; ignorant; lack of wisdom

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

人 (ひと、ヒト)

man; person; human being; mankind; people; human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species; character; personality; man of talent; true man; another person; other people; others; adult

が (が)

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

何 (なに、なん)

what; how many; you-know-what; that; whatsit; what's the expression; what do you call them; what?; hey!

年間 (ねんかん)

year (period of)

も (も)

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence); both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence); even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than; even if; even though; although; in spite of; further; more; again; another; the other

呼吸 (こきゅう)

breath; respiration; knack; trick; secret (of doing something)

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

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about