彼らは夜陰に乗じてかろうじて逃れる事ができた。

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English Translation

They had a narrow escape under cover of darkness.

Furigana

彼(かれ)らは夜陰(やいん)に乗(じょう)じてかろうじて逃(のが)れる事(こと)ができた。

Romanji

Karera wa yain ni jōjite karōjite nogareru koto ga dekita.

Words

彼ら (かれら)

they (usually male); them

は (は)

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

夜陰 (やいん)

shades of evening; dead of night

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

乗じる (じょうじる)

to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply

辛うじて (かろうじて)

barely; narrowly; just manage to do something

逃れる (のがれる)

to escape

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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant