地域参加を呼びかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句、どのみち市役所はやりたいことを勝手にやるに決まっている。

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English Translation

The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.

Furigana

地域(ちいき)参加(さんか)を呼(よ)びかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句(びじれいく)、どのみち市役所(しやくしょ)はやりたいことを勝手(かって)にやるに決(き)まっている。

Romanji

Chiiki sanka o yobikakete mo shosen wa bijireiku, donomichi shiyakusho wa yaritai koto o katte ni yaru ni kimatteiru.

Words

地域 (ちいき)

area; region

参加 (さんか)

participation

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.

呼びかける (よびかける)

to call out to; to accost; to address (crowd); to appeal

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

所詮 (しょせん、そせん)

after all

は (は)

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

美辞麗句 (びじれいく)

flowery words; rhetorical flourishes

どの道 (どのみち)

anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case

市役所 (しやくしょ)

municipal office; council; city hall

遣る (やる)

to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study; to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer; to make (a vehicle) go faster; to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise; to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke; to hold (a performance); to perform; to show; to ease (one's mind); to harm; to injure; to kill; to have sex with; to live; to get by; to get along; to do ... completely; to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance; to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance); to make active efforts to ...

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

勝手 (かって)

one's own convenience; one's way; convenience or ease of use; knowledge of how to use; circumstances; situation (e.g. financial); environment; kitchen; arbitrary; unauthorised (e.g. phone app, WWW site); unofficial

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

決まる (きまる)

to be decided; to be settled; to look good in (clothes)