大規模な表面の潮流が存在していることがすでに知られているが、表面下の大きな潮流も発見されつつある。

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English Translation

Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.

Furigana

大(だい)規模(きぼ)な表面(ひょうめん)の潮流(ちょうりゅう)が存在(そんざい)していることがすでに知(し)られているが、表面下(ひょうめんか)の大(おお)きな潮流(ちょうりゅう)も発見(はっけん)されつつある。

Romanji

Dai kibo na hyōmen no chōryū ga sonzaishiteiru koto ga sudeni shirareteiru ga, hyōmenka no ōkina chōryū mo hakkensare tsutsu aru.

Words

大 (おお)

big; large

規模 (きぼ)

scale; scope; plan; structure

だ (だ)

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

表面 (ひょうめん)

surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality

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

潮流 (ちょうりゅう)

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

が (が)

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

存在 (そんざい)

existence; being

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

既に (すでに、すんでに)

already; too late

知る (しる)

to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure); to experience; to go through; to learn; to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know; to concern

大きな (おおきな)

big; large; great

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

発見 (はっけん)

discovery; detection; finding

つつ (つつ)

while; even though; despite

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about