失明すること以上に大きな不幸があるだろうか。

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English Translation

What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?

Furigana

失明(しつめい)すること以上(いじょう)に大(おお)きな不幸(ふこう)があるだろうか。

Romanji

Shitsumeisuru koto ijōni ōkina fukō ga aru darou ka.

Words

失明 (しつめい)

loss of eyesight

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

大きな (おおきな)

big; large; great

不幸 (ふこう)

unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; disaster; accident; death

が (が)

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

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

だ (だ)

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

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way