船が転覆し大勢の乗客が海に投げ出された。

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English Translation

The ship turned upside down and many passengers were thrown into the sea.

Furigana

船(ふね)が転覆(てんぷく)し大勢(たいせい)の乗客(じょうきゃく)が海(うみ)に投(な)げ出(だ)された。

Romanji

Fune ga tenpukushi taisei no jōkyaku ga umi ni nagedasareta.

Words

船 (ふね)

ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship; tank; tub; vat; trough; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

が (が)

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

転覆 (てんぷく)

capsizing; overturn; turning over; upset; overthrow (e.g. a government)

大勢 (たいせい)

general trend; current thought

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

乗客 (じょうきゃく、じょうかく)

passenger

海 (うみ、み、わた、わだ)

sea; ocean; waters

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

投げ出す (なげだす)

to throw down; to throw out; to stretch out (one's legs); to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously; to sacrifice (e.g. one's life); to start to throw