ことは私たちが予想していたよりも順調に進んでいる。

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English Translation

The affair ran more smoothly than we expected.

Furigana

ことは私(わたし)たちが予想(よそう)していたよりも順調(じゅんちょう)に進(すす)んでいる。

Romanji

Koto wa watashitachi ga yosōshiteita yori mo junchō ni susundeiru.

Words

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

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

が (が)

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

予想 (よそう)

expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

より (より)

than; from; out of; since; at; on; except; but; other than; more

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

順調 (じゅんちょう)

favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right

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

荒む (すさむ)

to grow wild; to run to waste