グリーンピースは環境保護のために困難な戦いをしています。

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English Translation

Greenpeace is fighting an uphill battle to save the environment.

Furigana

グリーンピースは環境(かんきょう)保護(ほご)のために困難(こんなん)な戦(たたか)いをしています。

Romanji

Guri-Npi-Su wa kankyō hogo no tameni konnanna tatakai o shiteimasu.

Words

グリーンピース (グリーンピース、グリンピース、グリーン・ピース)

green peas; Greenpeace

は (は)

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

環境 (かんきょう)

environment; circumstance

保護 (ほご、ほうご)

care; protection; shelter; safeguard; guardianship; favor; favour; patronage

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

為に (ために)

for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of; because of; as a result of

困難 (こんなん)

difficulty; distress

戦い (たたかい)

battle; fight; struggle; conflict

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.

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to