それで中央郵便局が焼けて、やつらが私たちの大統領を誘拐したことを知ったの。

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English Translation

That's when we learned that the main post office was on fire and that they had kidnapped our president.

Furigana

それで中央(ちゅうおう)郵便局(ゆうびんきょく)が焼(や)けて、やつらが私(わたし)たちの大統領(だいとうりょう)を誘拐(ゆうかい)したことを知(し)ったの。

Romanji

Sorede chūō yūbinkyoku ga yakete, yatsura ga watashitachi no daitōryō o yūkaishita koto o shitta no.

Words

其れで (それで)

and; thereupon; because of that

中央 (ちゅうおう)

centre; center; middle; heart; metropolis; capital city; central government

郵便局 (ゆうびんきょく)

post office

が (が)

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

焼ける (やける)

to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be sunburnt; to fade (in the sun); to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset); to be jealous; to be envious

奴ら (やつら)

they; those guys

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

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

大統領 (だいとうりょう)

president; chief executive

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.

誘拐 (ゆうかい)

abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping

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

知る (しる)

to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern