田舎から都会へこの移動はここ２百年以上も続いてきたことである。

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English Translation

This movement from rural to urban areas has been going on for over two hundred years.

Furigana

田舎(いなか)から都会(とかい)へこの移動(いどう)はここ２百(ひゃく)年(ねん)以上(いじょう)も続(つづ)いてきたことである。

Romanji

Inaka kara tokai e kono idō wa koko ni hyaku nen ijō mo tsuzuitekita koto de aru.

Words

田舎 (いなか)

rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

都会 (とかい)

city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

此の (この)

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)

移動 (いどう)

movement; transfer; migration; removal; travel; mobile; moving; traveling; travelling; roving

は (は)

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

此処 (ここ)

here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place; these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker); these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ...

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

百 (ひゃく、もも、はく)

100; hundred

年 (とし)

year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age

以上 (いじょう)

not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards; beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that); above-mentioned; foregoing; since ...; seeing that ...; this is all; that is the end; the end

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

続く (つづく)

to continue; to last; to go on; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to; to adjoin; to come after; to follow; to succeed; to rank next to; to hold out; to keep; to last

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

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...