ある戸別訪問のセールスマンがお人好しの老婦人を馬鹿にして大金を持ち逃げした。

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English Translation

A certain door-to-door salesman made a fool of a trusting old lady and went off with a lot of her money.

Furigana

ある戸別(こべつ)訪問(ほうもん)のセールスマンがお人好(ひとよ)しの老(ろう)婦人(ふじん)を馬鹿(ばか)にして大金(たいきん)を持(も)ち逃(に)げした。

Romanji

Aru kobetsu hōmon no se-rusuman ga ohitoyoshi no rō fujin o baka ni shite taikin o mochinigeshita.

Words

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

戸別 (こべつ)

house-to-house; door-to-door; each house

訪問 (ほうもん)

call; visit

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

セールスマン (セールスマン)

salesman

が (が)

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

お人好し (おひとよし)

softhearted (good-natured, credulous) person; easy mark; soft touch; simple soul

老 (ろう)

old age; age; old people; the old; the aged

婦人 (ふじん)

woman; lady; adult female

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.

馬鹿 (ばか、バカ)

fool; idiot; trivial matter; folly; absurdity; foolish; stupid; dull; absurd; ridiculous; Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)

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

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

大金 (たいきん、おおがね)

large amount of money; great cost

持ち逃げ (もちにげ)

making off with (something); absconding; stolen; absconded (with)