熱帯雨林がお金のために破壊されているのは残念なことだ。

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English Translation

It's a tragedy that rainforests are being destroyed for the sake of profits.

Furigana

熱帯(ねったい)雨林(うりん)がお金(かね)のために破壊(はかい)されているのは残念(ざんねん)なことだ。

Romanji

Nettai urin ga okane no tameni hakaisareteiru no wa zannenna koto da.

Words

熱帯 (ねったい)

tropics

雨林 (うりん)

rain forest

が (が)

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

お金 (おかね)

money

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

破壊 (はかい)

destruction; disruption; (application) crash

は (は)

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

残念 (ざんねん)

deplorable; bad luck; regret; disappointment

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

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative