海戦に先立って出港したからには、乗組員が船に慣れる時間がないことが、しばしばあるものだ。

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English Translation

A sailor frequently has no time to get his sea legs after leaving port before a battle starts.

Furigana

海戦(かいせん)に先立(さきだ)って出港(しゅっこう)したからには、乗組員(のりくみいん)が船(ふね)に慣(な)れる時間(じかん)がないことが、しばしばあるものだ。

Romanji

Kaisen ni sakidatte shukkōshita karaniwa, norikumiin ga fune ni nareru jikan ga nai koto ga, shibashiba aru mono da.

Words

海戦 (かいせん)

naval battle

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

先立つ (さきだつ)

to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to take precedence; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite

出港 (しゅっこう)

departure; clearance (of a ship)

からには (からには)

now that; since; so long as; because

乗組員 (のりくみいん)

crew

が (が)

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

船 (ふね)

ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship; tank; tub; vat; trough; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

慣れる (なれる)

to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become familiar with; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated

時間 (じかん)

time; hours

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

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

しばしば (しばしば、シバシバ、しぱしぱ、シパシパ)

(blinking) repeatedly

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

者 (もの、もん)

person

だ (だ)

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