人々が我々について言っていることが真実であることを反省してみると粛然とせざるをえない。

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English Translation

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Furigana

人々(ひとびと)が我々(われわれ)について言(い)っていることが真実(しんじつ)であることを反省(はんせい)してみると粛然(しゅくぜん)とせざるをえない。

Romanji

Hitobito ga wareware nitsuite itteiru koto ga shinjitsu de aru koto o hanseishitemiru to shukuzen to sezaru o enai.

Words

人々 (ひとびと、にんにん)

each person; people; men and women; everybody

が (が)

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

我々 (われわれ)

に就いて (について)

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

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

真実 (しんじつ、さな、さね)

truth; reality

だ (だ)

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

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

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.

反省 (はんせい)

reflection; reconsideration; introspection; meditation; contemplation; regret; repentance; remorse; being sorry

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

粛然 (しゅくぜん)

silent; quiet; solemn; softly; quietly; solemnly

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

選る (よる、える、すぐる)

to choose; to select