私たちの国が徐々に破滅していくことをくい止めなければならない。

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English Translation

The gradual ruin of our country has to be stopped.

Furigana

私(わたし)たちの国(くに)が徐々(じょじょ)に破滅(はめつ)していくことをくい止(と)めなければならない。

Romanji

Watashitachi no kuni ga jojoni hametsushiteiku koto o kuitomenakerebanaranai.

Words

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

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

国 (くに)

country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan); land; earth

が (が)

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

破滅 (はめつ)

ruin; destruction; fall

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

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.

食い止める (くいとめる)

to check; to hold back