警官が逮捕されたことに私は少なからず驚いた。

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English Translation

I'm not a little surprised that the policeman was arrested.

Furigana

警官(けいかん)が逮捕(たいほ)されたことに私(わたし)は少(すく)なからず驚(おどろ)いた。

Romanji

Keikan ga taihosareta koto ni watashi wa sukunakarazu odoroita.

Words

警官 (けいかん)

policeman

が (が)

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

逮捕 (たいほ)

arrest; apprehension; capture

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

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

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

は (は)

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

少ない (すくない)

few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom

驚く (おどろく)

to be surprised; to be astonished