忠告を与えることは出来るが、行動を起こさせる霊感を吹き込むことは出来ない。

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English Translation

We may give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

Furigana

忠告(ちゅうこく)を与(あた)えることは出来(でき)るが、行動(こうどう)を起(お)こさせる霊感(れいかん)を吹(ふ)き込(こ)むことは出来(でき)ない。

Romanji

Chūkoku o ataeru koto wa dekiru ga, kōdō o okosaseru reikan o fukikomu koto wa dekinai.

Words

忠告 (ちゅうこく)

advice; warning

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.

与える (あたえる)

to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award; to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply; to assign; to cause; to pass (a variable to a function)

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

は (は)

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

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

が (が)

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

行動 (こうどう)

action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation

起こす (おこす)

to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up; to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken; to cause; to bring about; to lead to; to trigger; to give rise to; to create; to generate (e.g. heat, electricity); to produce; to start; to begin; to launch; to establish; to found; to set up; to open; to plough; to plow; to till; to fall ill with; to transcribe; to write down (what is spoken); to turn over (a card)

霊感 (れいかん)

inspiration; afflatus; ability to sense the supernatural (esp. ghosts, etc.)

吹き込む (ふきこむ)

to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)