皮肉なことに戦争が数多くの有用な発明を生み出した。

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English Translation

Ironically it is war that has brought a great many useful inventions into being.

Furigana

皮肉(ひにく)なことに戦争(せんそう)が数(すう)多(おお)くの有用(ゆうよう)な発明(はつめい)を生(う)み出(だ)した。

Romanji

Hinikuna koto ni sensō ga sū ōku no yūyōna hatsumei o umidashita.

Words

皮肉 (ひにく)

cynicism; sarcasm; irony; satire

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

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

戦争 (せんそう)

war

が (が)

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

多く (おおく)

many; much; largely; abundantly; mostly

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

有用 (ゆうよう)

useful; helpful

発明 (はつめい)

invention; intelligent; clever; being enlightened; having the meaning of everything become clear

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

生み出す (うみだす)

to create; to bring forth; to produce; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear