厄介者が、模範市民になることはあまりない。

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English Translation

Troublemakers rarely become model citizens.

Furigana

厄介者(やっかいしゃ)が、模範(もはん)市民(しみん)になることはあまりない。

Romanji

Yakkaisha ga, mohan shimin ni naru koto wa amari nai.

Words

厄介者 (やっかいもの)

dependent; parasite; hanger-on; burden

が (が)

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

模範 (もはん)

exemplar; exemplification; exemplum; model; example

市民 (しみん)

citizen; citizenry; public; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class

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

成る (なる)

to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain; to result in; to prove to be; to consist of; to be composed of; to succeed; to be complete; to change into; to be exchanged for; to play a role; to be promoted; to do ...

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

余り (あまり、あんまり)

remainder; rest; balance; remains; scraps; residue; remnant; not very (with negative sentence); not much; surplus; excess; fullness; too much; more than; over

ない (ない)

not; emphatic suffix