国際的批判直面して捕鯨をやめた国がいくつかある。

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English Translation

Some countries have stopped whaling in the face of international criticism.

Furigana

国際的(こくさいてき)批判(ひはん)直面(ちょくめん)して捕鯨(ほげい)をやめた国(くに)がいくつかある。

Romanji

Kokusaiteki hihan chokumenshite hogei o yameta kuni ga ikutsu ka aru.

Words

国際的 (こくさいてき)

international

批判 (ひはん)

criticism; judgement; judgment; comment

直面 (ちょくめん)

confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter

捕鯨 (ほげい)

whaling; whale fishing

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.

止める (やめる)

to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to end; to quit; to cancel; to abandon; to give up; to abolish; to abstain; to refrain

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

幾つ (いくつ)

how many?; how old?

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

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