複数の呼吸器疾患による衰弱のため、彼は先週、音楽指揮者としての仕事を断念する旨の発表を余儀なくされたばかりでした。

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English Translation

Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.

Furigana

複数(ふくすう)の呼吸器(こきゅうき)疾患(しっかん)による衰弱(すいじゃく)のため、彼(かれ)は先週(せんしゅう)、音楽(おんがく)指揮者(しきしゃ)としての仕事(しごと)を断念(だんねん)する旨(むね)の発表(はっぴょう)を余儀(よぎ)なくされたばかりでした。

Romanji

Fukusū no kokyūki shikkan niyoru suijaku no tame, kare wa senshū, ongaku shikisha toshite no shigoto o dannensuru mune no happyō o yoginaku sareta bakari deshita.

Words

複数 (ふくすう)

several; plural; plurality; multiple

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

呼吸器 (こきゅうき)

respiratory organs

疾患 (しっかん)

disease; ailment; illness

に依る (による)

by means of; due to; because of; according to

衰弱 (すいじゃく)

weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration

為 (ため)

good; advantage; benefit; welfare; sake; purpose; objective; aim; consequence; result; effect; affecting; regarding; concerning

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

は (は)

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

先週 (せんしゅう)

last week; the week before

音楽 (おんがく)

music; musical movement

指揮者 (しきしゃ)

(musical) conductor; commander; leader; director

として (として)

as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...

仕事 (しごと)

work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task; work

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.

断念 (だんねん)

abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

旨 (むね)

center (centre); pillar; principle; purport; gist; drift; meaning

発表 (はっぴょう)

announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known; breaking (news story); expressing (one's opinion); releasing; unveiling

余儀ない (よぎない)

unavoidable; inevitable; beyond one's control

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

許り (ばかり、ばっかり、ばっか)

only; merely; nothing but; no more than; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to; indicates emphasis; always; constantly

デス (デス)

death