学校へ行ったことのない人は貨物自動車からものを盗みかねないが、大学教育を受けた人なら鉄道全部を盗みかねない。

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English Translation

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Furigana

学校(がっこう)へ行(い)ったことのない人(ひと)は貨物(かもつ)自動車(じどうしゃ)からものを盗(ぬす)みかねないが、大学(だいがく)教育(きょういく)を受(う)けた人(ひと)なら鉄道(てつどう)全部(ぜんぶ)を盗(ぬす)みかねない。

Romanji

Gakkō e itta koto no nai hito wa kamotsu jidōsha kara mono o nusumikanenai ga, daigaku kyōiku o uketa hito nara tetsudō zenbu o nusumikanenai.

Words

学校 (がっこう)

school

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

行く (いく、ゆく)

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach; to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk; to die; to pass away; to do (in a specific way); to stream; to flow; to continue; to have an orgasm; to come; to cum; to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination

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

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

ない (ない)

not; emphatic suffix

人 (ひと、ヒト)

man; person; human being; mankind; people; human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species; character; personality; man of talent; true man; another person; other people; others; adult

は (は)

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

貨物 (かもつ、かぶつ)

cargo; freight; money or assets

自動車 (じどうしゃ)

automobile

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

者 (もの、もん)

person

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.

盗む (ぬすむ)

to steal

が (が)

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

大学 (だいがく)

post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning - one of the Four Books

教育 (きょういく)

training; education

受ける (うける)

to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to suffer (an injury); to feel (influence); to undergo (e.g. surgery); to take (a test); to accept (a challenge); to be given (e.g. life, talent); to follow; to succeed; to be descended from; to face (south, etc.); to be modified by; to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee; to be well-received; to become popular; to go down well

だ (だ)

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

鉄道 (てつどう)

railroad; railway; rail transport

全部 (ぜんぶ)

all; entire; whole; altogether