科学技術は人間と自然の対立関係を和らげることができなかった。

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English Translation

Technology has failed to ease the conflict between man and nature.

Furigana

科学(かがく)技術(ぎじゅつ)は人間(にんげん)と自然(しぜん)の対立(たいりつ)関係(かんけい)を和(やわ)らげることができなかった。

Romanji

Kagaku gijutsu wa ningen to shizen no tairitsu kankei o yawarageru koto ga dekinakatta.

Words

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

人間 (にんげん)

human being; person; man; mankind; humankind; character (of a person)

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

自然 (しぜん)

nature; spontaneity; naturally; spontaneously

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

対立 (たいりつ)

confrontation; opposition; antagonism

関係 (かんけい)

relation; relationship; connection; participation; involvement; concern; influence; effect; sexual relations; sexual relationship; related to ...; connected to ...

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.

和らげる (やわらげる)

to soften; to moderate; to relieve

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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant