町の人たちは密輸業者がしようと試みていたことに驚くほど無知だった。

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English Translation

The townspeople were astonishingly naive about what the smugglers were.

Furigana

町(まち)の人(ひと)たちは密輸(みつゆ)業者(ぎょうしゃ)がしようと試(こころ)みていたことに驚(おどろ)くほど無知(むち)だった。

Romanji

Machi no hitotachi wa mitsuyu gyōsha ga shiyou to kokoromiteita koto ni odoroku hodo muchi datta.

Words

町 (まち、ちょう)

town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares

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

人達 (ひとたち)

people

は (は)

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

密輸 (みつゆ)

smuggling; contraband trade

業者 (ぎょうしゃ)

trader; merchant; vendor; manufacturer; contractor

が (が)

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

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

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

試みる (こころみる)

to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)

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

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

驚く (おどろく)

to be surprised; to be astonished

程 (ほど)

degree; extent; bounds; limit; indicates approx. amount or maximum; upper limit

無知 (むち)

ignorance; innocence; stupidity

だ (だ)

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