外国資本家は現地の政情不安が理由で手を引きました。

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English Translation

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

Furigana

外国(がいこく)資本家(しほんか)は現地(げんち)の政情(せいじょう)不安(ふあん)が理由(りゆう)で手(て)を引(ひ)きました。

Romanji

Gaikoku shihonka wa genchi no seijō fuan ga riyū de te o hikimashita.

Words

外国 (がいこく、そとぐに)

foreign country

資本家 (しほんか)

capitalist; financier

は (は)

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

現地 (げんち)

actual place; local; on-site

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

政情 (せいじょう)

political situation; political affairs

不安 (ふあん)

anxiety; uneasiness; insecurity; suspense

が (が)

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

理由 (りゆう、わけ)

reason; pretext; motive

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.

手 (て)

hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker; help; trouble; care; effort; means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship; hand; handwriting; kind; type; sort; one's hands; one's possession; ability to cope; hand (of cards); direction; move (in go, shogi, etc.)

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.

引く (ひく)

to pull; to draw (attention, etc.); to attract (interest, etc.); to draw back; to draw (a card); to draw (plan, line, etc.); to catch (cold); to play (string instr.); to look up (e.g. dictionary); to consult; to haul; to pull (vehicles); to subtract; to ebb; to fade; to descend (from); to inherit (a characteristic); to quote; to raise (as evidence); to lay (a cable); to draw (a cable)