赤道近くの狭い地域にある熱帯雨林は、急速にその姿を消しつつあり、２０００年までにはその８０％が消滅してしまうかもしれない。

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English Translation

The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.

Furigana

赤道(せきどう)近(ちか)くの狭(せま)い地域(ちいき)にある熱帯(ねったい)雨林(うりん)は、急速(きゅうそく)にその姿(すがた)を消(け)しつつあり、２０００年(ねん)までにはその８０％が消滅(しょうめつ)してしまうかもしれない。

Romanji

Sekidō chikaku no semai chiiki ni aru nettai urin wa, kyūsoku ni sono sugata o keshi tsutsu ari, ni zero zero zero nen made ni wa sono hachi zero pa-sento ga shōmetsushiteshimau kamo shirenai.

Words

赤道 (せきどう)

equator

近く (ちかく)

near; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearly (i.e. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

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

狭い (せまい)

narrow; confined; small

地域 (ちいき)

area; region

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

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

熱帯 (ねったい)

tropics

雨林 (うりん)

rain forest

は (は)

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

急速 (きゅうそく)

rapid (e.g. progress)

其の (その)

that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the; um...; er...; uh...

姿 (すがた)

figure; form; shape; appearance; dress; guise; state; condition; picture; image; form (of a waka); dressed in ...; wearing ...

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.

消す (けす)

to erase; to delete; to cross out; to turn off power; to extinguish; to put out; to bump off

つつ (つつ)

while; even though; despite

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

○ (まる)

circle (sometimes used for zero); 'correct' (when marking); symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); period; full stop; maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound

年 (とし)

year; many years; age; past one's prime; old age

迄 (まで)

until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely

八 (はち、や)

eight

が (が)

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

消滅 (しょうめつ)

extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; vanishing; termination; lapse; annihilation

かも (かも)

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

知れる (しれる)

to become known; to come to light; to be discovered; to be known; to be understood; to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial; to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying; to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe