近代科学技術はなぜ中国で発展しなかったのだろうか。

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English Translation

Why didn't modern technology develop in China?

Furigana

近代(きんだい)科学(かがく)技術(ぎじゅつ)はなぜ中国(ちゅうごく)で発展(はってん)しなかったのだろうか。

Romanji

Kindai kagaku gijutsu wa naze Chūgoku de hattenshinakatta no darou ka.

Words

近代 (きんだい)

present day; modern times

科学 (かがく)

science

技術 (ぎじゅつ)

art; craft; technique; technology; engineering; skill

は (は)

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

何故 (なぜ、なにゆえ)

why; how

中国 (ちゅうごく)

China; Chugoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures); central part of a country; main region

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

発展 (はってん)

development; growth; advancement; unfurling; expansion; extension; enlargement; playing around; having an active sex life

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

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